Word: puppetized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. General Constantin Sanatescu, 62, reluctant Premier of Rumania's first, pro-Allied Government after her surrender in August 1944; of cancer; in Bucharest. Co-engineer with King Michael of the coup d'état that overthrew the Fascist puppet-masters, Sanatescu fell into disfavor with the Russians after three months as premier, quit, became inspector general of the Army...
...story line is one that the movies have worn to a smudge: Maurice Chevalier instructs a youngster (François Perier) in the Art of Love. Thereupon the youngster steals the oldster's girl (Marcelle Derrien). The parody is heightened by direction that reduces action almost to a puppet-like simplicity, and by a harsh lighting that gives actors and sets the two-dimensional look of paper cutouts...
...years, the puppet King has tried doggedly to curb the Communists, but he is their virtual prisoner in his gilt & gingerbread palace at Sinaia. Any contact between sovereign and subjects is rigorously discouraged by the Communists. His own two aunts are little better than Russian agents. His Speech from the Throne last week, at the opening of Rumania's Parliament, was plainly dictated by Communist Petru Groza, the King's first minister and Rumania's real boss. "Friendship and cooperation in all fields with the U.S.S.R.," read Michael, "remain the very basis of Rumanian foreign policy. Rumania...
Russia's puppet press went too far. After one look at the article in which a Soviet newsman compared President Harry Truman to Adolf Hitler, the U.S. State Department took a hand. In Moscow; Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith presented a stiff protest to the Russian foreign office: "I cannot recall that Dr. Goebbels, of unsavory memory . . . ever stooped to greater ridicule and vituperation. ... I would never have believed that a Soviet writer.would permit himself, or be permitted, to draw an analogy between the President of the U.S. and our recent common enemy...
...ponds. The afternoon was perfect, with just a touch of cloud, wind and rain to make it true to England. Into the green expanse spilled some 60,000 Britons (at 50? for the general public, 30? for Conservative Party members). For their entertainment there were bowling greens, tea tents, puppet shows, acrobats, bicycle races and, of course, cricket. For their inspiration there was Winston Churchill. Before the day was done, the 60,000 had heard the best the Tories had to offer; for many that was obviously not good enough...