Word: puppetize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hrer therefore were sharply divided and they were also frightened. According to London newspundits, the German troops in Spain seem to be moving in equipped to settle down as an Army of Occupation. Should anything like 60,000 arrive, Generalissimo Franco would simply be Dictator Hitler's puppet. Meanwhile in Germany, decrees were drafted to keep in the Fatherland all men of fighting age (18 to 45 years); an acute grain shortage was admitted in the German press; frantic Nazi campaigns were launched to make Germans save bread crusts, "tighten their belts," and Naziland seemed to be preparing...
...named Madame Xandra St. Aurlon (Helen Vinson), and 2) because a powerful group wants to get its hands on the government. In this close parallel to the Simpson case, the powerful group is not a Cabinet, but two unscrupulous capitalists who covet oil concessions. They are busy installing a puppet dictator as Regis leaves for Zurich to meet Madame St. Aurlon. Feeling responsible for his loss of the throne, she goes into hiding. Regis then becomes a playboy. He cracks up in airplane races, drives a speedboat at Le Touquet, plays polo at Deauville. He takes up with women...
Joke v. Blow. Lacking though it is in humor, the Japanese Army knows that any joke can be answered by a sufficiently heavy blow. Last week the Japanese Army proper did not move, but Japanese sent 30,000 of their puppet Manchukuoan troops and Mongolian allies on a thundering raid from Chahar, northwest of Peiping, into Suiyuan. The invaders were equipped with tanks, armored cars and battle planes of Japanese manufacture. Actual news from this remote region was scant but early and Chinese-censored dispatches made world headlines thrilling to thousands of Chinese laundrymen and other expatriate Celestials: CHINESE DEFEAT...
...beaming. So good a neighbor as President Roosevelt, they opined, is unlikely to interfere with the aspirations of Japan in China, whereas under President Hoover there was inaugurated the "Stimson Doctrine" which even now persists among the Great Powers and has blocked Japan from obtaining recognition for her puppet empire Manchukuo. Because they still hate Hoover & Stimson, Japanese particularly like Roosevelt & Hull...
...troops are fighting Communists; Japan must be permitted to advise, direct and furnish China with whatever capital she is permitted to raise and expend in schemes of Chinese economic development; and officials of the Chinese Government must submit to having at their elbows Japanese advisers like those in the puppet Empire of Manchukuo. This week Ambassador Kawagoe and Foreign Minister Chang were willing to admit publicly at Nanking that they had reached no agreement of importance and at Tokyo last week Japanese Big Business was in panic. The tycoons of the Empire do not want, just now, the crushing additional...