Word: puppetized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Over the puppet Paris radio the ingratiating voice of a "Dr. Friedrich"* gave a warped résumé of Vatican-German relations since the Concordat of 1933 was negotiated by Cardinal Pacelli (now Pius XII) and Franz von Papen...
...puppets danced last week in Occupied China. Behind the scenes the Jap pulled the wires. Obediently representatives of Vichy and Nanking signed a document that surrendered the old French concessions in Tientsin, Hankow and Canton to the puppet Chinese Government of Wang Ching-wei. Bleated the Tokyo radio: "Conclusive evidence of collaboration in a new order in East Asia...
...Puppetry. The Jap has long fought his great Oriental neighbor with three arms - military, economic and political. Political pressure he has exerted through puppets. The shadow regime of Henry Pu Yi set Manchurian Chinese apart from their southern countrymen. Similarly the regime of suave Wang Ching-wei, Japan's No. 1 puppet since March 1940, was designed to wean Chinese from allegiance to Chiang Kaishek. For three years the Mikado's generals stupidly sought to give Traitor Wang "face" without a pretense of authority. Chinese derided the puppet premier as "the prisoner of Nanking...
...champagne. Cedric Salter, Istanbul correspondent of the London Daily Express, wrote that he got the description from an unnamed participant in recent conferences to which the Führer had summoned four satellites (King Boris of Bulgaria, Admiral Nicholas Horthy of Hungary, Marshal Ion Antonescu of Rumania and Croat Puppet Ante Pavelich). The dispatch added...
...Catholic Slovak league (some leaders of which even in the U.S. have openly applauded Hitler's puppet regime in "independent" Slovakia) bitterly opposes him. Some of his fellow Czechs dislike his commitments to Russia. A personal friend of Polish Premier Wladyslaw Sikorski, Benes is hated by Polish extremists, partly because he insists that any federation between postwar Poland and Czechoslovakia should be adapted to the wishes of the U.S.S.R...