Word: puppeteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...garrisons near Fiume; 3) eastward on the Croat plain, patriot guerrillas are so active that the Germans have acknowledged the necessity of sending flotillas down the Danube to fight them; 4) in the Croat forests, an underground peasant organization, Zeleni Kadar (Green Quarters), resists both the Germans and their puppet terrorist, Ante Pavelich; 5) Slovenes in the farthest northern section resist when possible; 6) in old Montenegro, a Communist-led guerrilla army controls the capital, Cetinje, and surrounding territory...
...Zagreb's sun-washed Yelachich Square townspeople used to haggle with bright-costumed peasants who had spread out their wares. From sidewalk cafés men would banter with the pretty peasant girls. One day last week the shadow of hated Major Helm, Gestapo chief for the puppet state of Croatia, swaggered in the sun across the Square. Somewhere a rifle's muzzle nosed from a window. A shot clapped. Gestapo Chief Helm flopped down on his shadow, dead. Enraged and terrified, his bodyguard swung their pistols on the crowd, hurled hand grenades among the tables...
...World War II Zagreb had been the center of Croat resistance to Yugoslavia's dominant Serbs. Croats had clamored for autonomy, had got a measure of it in 1939. They got a different kind from the Nazis, who set up a separate Croat state. Ante Pavelich became its puppet premier and its army grew to one-and-a half divisions of quisling Croatian troops, plus enough Italian regulars and Black Shirts to control it. But, as Ante Pavelich soon found out, this was not what some Croats wanted. He dared not go out in the streets without a shield...
...newly occupied Chekiang Province. In the northern Hopei-Shantung-Shansi triangle the Japs tried a scorched-earth policy of burning out villages and frightening civilians from whom guerrilla bands receive food and shelter. But in Shanghai the Japanese had been busy trying to make the Chinese like their puppet government...
...when the comely faces of Tyrone Power and Rita Hayworth were snatched off the screen and a portrait of the late great Dr. Sun Yat-sen appeared. After a bewildered moment, the audience applauded. When the face of Chiang Kai-shek appeared, the Chinese went wild with joy. Next, Puppet Wang. No go. Boos and hisses...