Word: puppetized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paraguay's recognition of Argentina's President Edelmiro Farrell (TIME, March 20). Foreign Minister Luis Argana and two other pro-U.S. Ministers in Morinigo's Cabinet were allowed to stay a short time, but last week they were fired. Morinigo became an army-bossed puppet...
Gestapo's Choice. None could say for certain which or how many Rumanians Prince Stirbey spoke for. Anyone could see that he would not be at large in a warring world without: 1) Puppet-Dictator Marshal Ion ("Red Dog") Antonescu's permission; 2) the Gestapo's connivance. Some could see a telltale in the way the Gestapo detained Princess Elise a week at the Bulgarian border as a British subject, then inexplicably let her follow her father to Ankara. The Princess' husband, Major Edward Boxhall, now in the War Office in London, formerly represented armament-makers...
...therefore, Russia values America's friendship as we believe she does, she must not use her power to impose either an unjust frontier or a puppet government upon the Polish people. Russia must choose. She can impose her will but she cannot impose it without estranging millions of Americans whose opinions may be decisive in the development of our foreign policy. And Russia will estrange others besides Americans, for what will millions of citizens of the small conquered (and satellite) countries have to hope from an Allied victory, if this is how we discharge our obligations to Poland? Such...
...March 1, 1919, the funeral day of Korea's puppet Emperor, the people clad themselves in white mourning and the straw shoes of grief. Under the uneasy eyes of Jap gendarmes, 200,000 gathered in Seoul, the seaside capital. At two hours past noon, in thunderous mass unison, the people whipped forbidden banners into the air, shouted "Mansei!" ("Long Live Korea!"). In Pagoda Park a committee of 33 read a declaration: "We herewith proclaim the independence of Korea...
Pudgy, affable Dr. K. C. Wu, Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, announced that China's quislings are not necessarily criminals, warned that "the Government is not taking decision on the basis of public opinion." Minister of Publicity Liang Hanchao defined two methods of dealing with puppets: 1) those willingly serving the enemy "will be brought to book"; 2) those serving to keep their rice bowls filled "may be pardoned and even given liberal treatment." Liang said that Wang Ching-wei, No. 1 puppet in Asia, is definitely one of those to be punished when captured. Others were doubtful, recalled...