Word: puppeteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy, the world's most pompous puppet show, an official radio broadcast warned that "to tremble in public is a crime against the community and the country...
Judy Splinters' substitute for an Edgar Bergen is a 16-year-old San Francisco girl, Shirley Faye Dinsdale, who, says the real Bergen, is "the best natural ventriloquist I ever saw." What impresses ventriloquists most is an unusual accomplishment-Shirley Dinsdale can actually make her puppet sing, in a clear, sweet soprano...
...lunging through rich paddy fields. But millions have grinned at other posters on the walls of disemboweled buildings, posters including that of the artist who produced the little Nipponese angels (above). Peculiarly satisfying to the Chinese is also the kneeling statue (left) of Wang Ching-wei, Japan's puppet premier of the Nanking Government. During the Sung dynasty (10th to 13th Centuries) a similar kneeling statue was erected to Ch'in Kuei, China's Benedict Arnold, a cast-iron image that for centuries was spat upon and defiled by the populace in Hangchow. To the Chinese Wang...
...Delhi, in its hammer-&-tongs propaganda war with Siam. Credit goes chiefly to a group of young Siamese scripters, attached to the British Ministry of Information in Delhi. They really know where Siam's political nerves lie, have seldom missed a chance to needle Siam's little puppet dictator Luang Pitul Songgram...
...Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru once explained to his daughter: "[Sir Warren] Hastings started the policy of having puppet Indian princes under British control. So we have to thank him partly for the crowds of gilded and empty-headed maharajas and nawabs who strut about the Indian scene and make a nuisance of themselves...