Word: puppetize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...southern Suiyuan, Captain Carlson visited famed Manchurian Leader General Ma Chan-shan, now carrying on guerrilla warfare near the border of Inner Mongolia. General Ma had supplemented his cavalry brigade with a formidable army of Mongol and Chinese deserters from forces organized by Japanese in their "puppet" states. Said Captain Carlson: "The Japanese have had no success in organizing Chinese armies to fight their battles for them. Already [General Ma] has 4,000 such converts in his ranks. While I was there a whole regiment of Manchukuoan soldiers arrived. They had murdered their ten Japanese officers and were still wearing...
Meanwhile, able-bodied men are being constantly trained for the guerrilla armies, whose morale is high, and every Chinese has learned to sing war songs. As for Japan's Chinese hirelings in "puppet" government jobs, Captain Carlson declared: "Chinese guerrillas are very charitable in their views toward the Chinese puppets, declaring that most of them are loyal Chinese at heart. They claim to be in constant communication with many of these Japanese hirelings...
Economic Deviltry. Under Japan's puppet Governments in Nanking and in Peking, according to dispatches, companies dominated by Japanese officials are being given monopoly franchises to operate utilities in Nanking and vicinity, many Chinese mines and virtually all inland shipping on the lower Yangtze. Owners of the properties were advised by Japan's Chinese puppets to turn over their properties in exchange for stock in the new firms, or face outright confiscation within ten days. Dispatches from Peking reported that in Nanking, Chinese peddlers are now employed in large numbers by Japanese narcotic jobbers to peddle opium...
When the Princeton campus heard the news, 123 faculty members signed petitions of "consternation." The undergraduate Liberal club, spurred by Socialist Norman Thomas, Princeton '05, collected 600 signatures protesting "the tyranny and intolerance" for which Hague and "his puppet" Governor Moore stand. The Daily Princetonian called the award "a mistake" but counseled letting it go through "in an honorable way." The University, unable to withdraw its invitation, went uncomfortably ahead to make Harry Moore an honored...
Died. General Tsao Kun, 76, onetime (1923-24) President of China; after long illness; in Tientsin. An oldtime war lord, he lost China's Presidency during a civil war, has since worked against his successors, was regarded as probable choice to head the new puppet state Japan hopes to establish in North China...