Word: puppeteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another alleged nation declared war on the U.S. and Britain last week: Japan's puppet government of the Philippines, headed by "President" José Laurel, one-time Supreme Court justice. He had cause to fear that his term might be growing shorter...
University students and their professors are the unhappiest people in Japan. This is the report, cabled by TIME'S Chungking Correspondent Theodore White last week, of a Chinese teacher who visited Japan last year on a puppet-government mission, has since repented his apostasy...
Through their puppet, Wang Ching-wei, the Japanese still hope to make a separate peace with some group within the Chungking Government. "They hope to split China away from union with America and England, and, as they say, 'to return China into the bosom of East Asia.' They try to buy defeatists, capitulationists and appeasers, acting under the guise of promising the 'independence and sovereignty of China.' They seek indefatigably to sharpen China's inner discord and arouse civil...
...Chiang Kaishek. "For years a great part of Chiang's best troops, headed by the most experienced generals and officers, have been 'guarding' China from the 'Communists' . . . who are waging a continuous, active, partisan war against the greater portion of the combined Japanese and puppet Chinese troops...
...holds that job as well as the Ministry for Greater East Asia Affairs. Acceptable to the Army and big business, he is considered a moderate. In 1938, he settled a serious border dispute with the Soviet Union. Last spring he transferred Japan's extraterritorial rights in China to Puppet Wang Ching-wei. His Greater East Asia responsibilities include the continent from Manchuria to Burma. When face-saving or gracious withdrawals become inescapable, Shigemitsu can do both with honorable grace...