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Word: puppeteers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Budapest, puppet Admiral Nicholas Horthy issued the war's first Hungarian order of the day: "The war is now approaching its final phase. . . . Once more [it is] a matter of the immediate defense of our fatherland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: A Sea Regained | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

...Nazis did have the sense to install as their No. 1 puppet a Slovak who commands a real following: a canny, bulletheaded nationalist and priest named Joseph Tiso. With political craft and German aid, Tiso has: 1) fed his countrymen relatively well; 2) provided state jobs; 3) promoted Slovaks in government service; 4) suppressed pro-Czechs, by deporting them or threatening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pride and a Priest | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

Since then, Dictator Martínez has suppressed plots, kept order with the help of his high-paid army, his spies, and the richer landlords. He made headlines by being the first to recognize the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, and the Spanish regime of Francisco Franco. Otherwise he kept El Salvador out of the news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EL SALVADOR: Haunted Theosophist | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

...official summary from Naples pointed out: "The temporary destruction of railway lines and the incidental destruction of rolling stock and supplies cannot fail to influence the progress of the Russian advance into the Balkans. A secondary result is to confuse further the political situation in the puppet countries striving to avoid entanglement in the German collapse." Some observers thought the Balkan raids alone might eventually justify Allied strategy in landing in Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Allies on Eastern Fronts | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

...Price Administrator Brown will be no puppet. An able administrator, well-versed in law and economics, he is a popular candidate with all concerned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To the Rescue | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

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