Word: puppetized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squeamish about suppressing underground resistance. One of the new appointees was Joseph Darnand, a former carpenter who received full power over French police, gendarmerie, secret service, militia, and the private armies of ultra-collaborationists like Marcel Déat and Jacques Doriot. Also, in the event of Puppet Pierre Laval's absence (which, of course, can be arranged at any time), Darnand is automatically to become "acting Chief of Government." Mourning somewhere in the shadows is Marshal Pétain (who had written to Laval that he "declined all personal responsibility for . . . the new Cabinet...
Chungkingers last week wondered whether they would soon lose their favorite spittoon, the iron statue of Nanking Puppet Wang Ching-wei and his wife. The question of revenge against turncoats had been reopened by the conservative Catholic newspaper Yishipao, with this editorial olive branch: "If the traitors are willing to turn over a new leaf, we will forgive the past and allow them to return...
Ever since fat Francisco Franco stupidly congratulated the Japanese puppet government in the Philippines on its inauguration, Washington has buzzed with rumors that the U.S. State Department had moved swiftly to take advantage of this diplomatic blunder. Last week American Aviation Daily flatly stated that the U.S. had won landing rights for U.S. commercial airplanes in Spain. The State Department, presumably because of still pending negotiations (which might involve the release of Italian ships in Spanish harbors), remained...
This week in Verona, capital of the Nazi manipulated Fascist "Republic," Ciano was condemned to death by a puppet court, shot next...
Gateways Closing? As this week began, five columns spearheaded by tanks moved against Tito's forces south and east of Benja Luka. Tito appeared to have suffered heavy losses. He called on Yugoslavs serving under Serbian Puppet Milan Nedich, Croatian Quisling Ante Pavelich, or Chetnik leaders (probably meaning General Draja Mihailovich) to join his forces. With seeming desperation he warned: "Those collaborators who fail to heed the final invitation will be treated as enemies when the day of settlement comes...