Word: puppetized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, Vichy Chief of State, failed to make a scheduled broadcast. That caused a spate of reports, some buttressed by "informed circles" in France, all adding up to the suggestion that Marshal Pétain was fed up with Nazi Puppet Pierre Laval, and anxious to set himself aright with anti-Nazi Frenchmen and the Allies. Finally, a Geneva newspaper published the text of the speech Pétain never made-a document purporting to promulgate a return to democratic government. At week's end, an aurora borealis of rumors flamed from Vichy...
...where St. George slew his dragon and the hills where Solomon got his tall cedars, French officers and helmeted Senegalese soldiers summarily arrested Lebanon's President Bechara El Khoury, Premier Riad Solh and his cabinet ministers. By the day's end, Parliament had been dissolved, a puppet regime led by Francophile ex-President Emile Eddé had been installed, newspapers banned, martial law and curfew imposed, troops posted in squares. Having ordered these measures, French Delegate General Jean Helleu leaned back, ready for the worst...
...that the U.S., defeated at the beginning, was now "overcoming many difficulties and dangers, and the war is growing in intensity." Nakano also knew what most men-in-the-street could barely guess: Japan had suffered reverses in the South Pacific (see col. 2); Mussolini had become a shabby puppet; Hitler...
Then fortnight ago in San Francisco, California's earnest young Representative Will Rogers Jr., junketing on a lecture tour, gave currency to a proposal often discussed among experts on the Far East. Said Will Rogers: perhaps the Mikado would be an ideal U.S. puppet in Japan. The idea had been proposed by a British diplomat, he said. Congressman Rogers carefully did not endorse or condemn the plan; he merely offered it for his listeners' "consideration...
Franklin Roosevelt lay abed, battling the grippe. But the new Jap puppet Government in the Philippines (TIME, Oct. 25) raised his temperature higher than the grippe's mild fever. Said he: "A hypocritical appeal for American sympathy. . . . Fraud and deceit . . . designed to confuse and mislead the Filipino people...