Word: puppeteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manuel Roxas (pronounced roe-hoss) stayed, was soon captured by the Japs in Mindanao. Then began a long campaign to make him a puppet ruler. Roxas, determined to carry on guerrilla activities, warded off the first Jap blandishments by feigning illness (he had lost 48 Ibs.). When Japs came to call at his Manila home, he took fever shots, bounded up & down steps to make himself pant and sweat. Finally, Premier Tojo sent his personal physician to treat Manuel Roxas; eventually Roxas found his name on a Jap-appointed commission to draft a Philippine constitution...
...only member of the commission who never cashed the 10,000-peso check which the Japs sent as an honorarium. (He says the check was burned with other papers when his house was destroyed in the battle for Manila.) He was appointed to the cabinet of puppet President Jose Laurel, but did not attend its meetings. U.S. officers who stayed behind during the occupation give Manuel Roxas the highest rating. Said one: "He was the overall spiritual leader of the guerrillas." Many Filipinos idolize him the way they once did Manuel Quezon...
Last week Tass, official Soviet news agency, reported that Peter Grozja, Russia's puppet Premier of Rumania, had called for the formation of a Soviet-sponsored league of Danubian states (presumably Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria and Czechoslovakia...
...From a Filipino just escaped from Japanese-held territory came word that General Tomoyuki Yamashita, onetime conqueror of the Philippines, had decided not to imitate other Jap commanders by remaining to die with his trapped troops. The general, together with José P. Laurel, quisling president of the Philippine puppet government, departed suddenly for Japan...
...Aimone was nominated to the throne of the new puppet kingdom of Croatia. But never did a mouse give a trap wider berth than the new Tomislav II gave his kingdom. He preferred to frolic in Florence. With the armistice Aimone joined the Italian Navy, but managed to maintain his heavy social schedule...