Word: puppetized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Japs failed to capture Tomás Confesor, they tried persuasion. The puppet governor of Iloilo begged Confesor to return, to bring "peace and tranquillity to our people." Confesor's reply has become a classic of resistance literature: "This war has placed us in the crucible to assay the metal in our being. . . . You underrate the nobility and grandeur of the character and soul of the Filipino. . . . I will not surrender as long as I stand on my feet." Firmly on his feet last week, Confesor was ready to start clearing up battered Manila, preparing to rebuild...
Perfect Timing. The timing of this move was as perfect as the Kremlin's recognition of its puppet Polish Government, 24 hours before the Red Army offensive into the Reich. The Warsaw Government's President Boleslaw Bierut was specific about the meaning of the move. Said he to Allied correspondents: "On Polish soil there should be a Polish administration regardless of the opinions that may be expressed at the international [Big Three] conference''. He added that he did not believe that any of the Allies "will be willing to interfere." (This week the Big Three agreed...
...fought the Germans through five years of underground and guerrilla resistance. It had aided the Red Army. It had suffered grave losses in last fall's Warsaw uprising. Now what the Germans had left of the Home Army was being systematically "liquidated" by the Russians and their puppet Warsaw Government...
...common interest; 2) an agreement that all areas conquered or liberated by the United Nations are to remain open without restrictions to military and civil officials and to press representatives of all the United Nations; 3) a hands-off policy in liberated countries (which means cutting out the puppet stuff); 4) renunciation by the major powers of a veto right in cases before the coming Security Council in which they are the accused...
Comino, Mexico's most popular puppet, is also one of the Mexican Ministry of Education's most effective mass-educators. He has a free-&-easy way with his audiences, dangling his legs over the platform, challenging kids ("Hey, you with the glasses!") to come up and recite. When the Government first tried to give toothbrushes away free, nobody would take them. But when Comino put on his show and squeaked that "No boy or girl who won't brush his teeth is a friend of mine," both children and adults lined up. The original Comino was created...