Word: puppetized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs had established a Philippine totalitarian party, the Kalibapi. They had collected some unquestionably loyal quislings, headed by Puppet President José P. Laurel, a former Philippine Supreme Court Justice. At his inaugural last week, a 21-gun salute rattled over the capital...
...Northern Italy, Puppet Premier Mussolini's "official" radio blamed Italian newsmen for the fall of Fascism: "The poisonous atmosphere of general suspicion that made possible the treachery of [Premier Pietro] Badoglio and the triumph of defeatism . . . was largely due to shortcomings in the field of . . . journalism...
...less essential occupations women will replace men. > All Government agencies, factories and schools which can be moved will be shifted from the cities into the countryside. > The output of munitions, and especially aircraft, must be increased. > Self-sufficiency in food will be sought for Japan and the puppet state of Manchukuo. (Tokyo radio said earlier: "If shortage of rice gets to the point of famine, shipping space could be made available for the transportation of rice from the South...
...from Young Marshal Chang Hsüeh-liang not to resist, retired. Other Jap companies marched into Mukden, three miles down the line. By morning they were in full possession and had started to persuade the world that China was a synonym for chaos and the setting up of puppet "Manchukuo" a regrettable necessity. It was Sept...
...free him; how "SS Commandos," despite those orders, whisked off their man "without a scratch"; how grateful Mussolini had movingly phoned the Führer after his release. The Berlin claim fitted into Adolf Hitler's unfolding scheme for Italy under Nazi control. That scheme called for a puppet Fascist regime, set up in Mussolini's name but probably under direction of one of Fascismo's toughest big shots, ex-Party Secretary Roberto Farinacci, who has escaped to Germany...