Word: puppeteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slight, myopic man known as O-Tenshi-Sami, Son of Heaven, is a religious symbol, explained OWI. As such, he is a potent puppet in the hands of the warlords-but some day he might be an equally useful puppet to the Allies...
...seizure meant little operationally, the rail crisis set off momentous sound & fury. In the opinion of a "high Washington official" it may have delayed revolts in Germany's puppet nations and cost hundreds of thousands of U.S. lives...
...Change. The Algiers regime stood on its record, and on its plan for returning liberated France to constitutional democracy (TIME, Dec. 13). Admiral Jean François Darlan, the puppet and symbol of Allied expediency, was dead; General Henri Honoré Giraud, the later instrument of expediency, was in eclipse. Their alternative and countersymbol, General de Gaulle, was no longer the sole and dominant symbol of Fighting France. The Liberation Committee and its corollary advisory Consultative Assembly had to some extent overshadowed him. All responsible observers in Algiers, including some who had opposed De Gaulle, now recognized the fact that...
...Pierre Laval, having served with distinction as No. 1 Nazi puppet, has now been officially nominated for No. 1 French scapegoat...
Lovers and Friends (by Dodie Smith, produced by Katharine Cornell and John C. Wilson) is Katharine Cornell and Raymond Massey adroitly wasting their time on a tedious drawing-room comedy of English puppet love. Dodie Smith, who in Autumn Crocus and Call It a Day wrote agreeable matinee folderol, in Lovers and Friends has worked out one of the oldest problems in sexual geometry on a theatrical abacus...