Word: puppetized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...border clash at Changkufeng Hill in 1938. As Ambassador to London he made many acquaintances, managed to convey the useful impression that he was opposed to Japan's militarists. In 1941 he became Ambassador to Nanking, where he inaugurated Japan's recent policy of buttering up the puppet government (TIME, April...
...Allies Can Do It. The Japs soon disillusioned the Burmese. Jap soldiers looted and raped. The Japanese made Puppet Ba Maw the nominal dictator of a nominally independent Burma, but they broke many of their promises. Many Burmese, says Author Thien Pe, would now turn against the Japanese and fight with the British if London would give the Burmese people any real encouragement...
...oversupply and buying in occupied areas with gold, the flow can be reversed. The consumers goods . . . necessary to stiffen the Chinese internally will flow into the free interior. When sold for China dollars they will help reduce excess purchasing power. This is possible because of Jap puppet administrators' corruption. If goods are not movable, they can be destroyed where bought...
...Rome, supposedly safe from bombing, is completely blacked out. Few cinemas operate: Italian companies produce very few pictures, and German pictures are unpopular. Puppet shows, performing dogs, old traveling artists have made a comeback. Churches are packed; confessionals are besieged by penitents, and huge religious demonstrations are frequent in towns and cities throughout the country...
Last week Japan's Premier Hideki Tojo exhibited his Chinese puppet government to Axis diplomats. In Nanking, Tojo ordered 35 mosquito boats to fire a 21-gun salute. Japanese and puppet Chinese troops paraded on the third anniversary of Traitor Wang Ching-wei's Nanking regime...