Word: puppetized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freedom (TIME, May 25) came news last week that General Draja Mihailovich's Army, now grown to a total of 200,000 men, had swooped down to attack Axis columns in Bosnia, then had retired again to craggy hideouts. In Croatia, deserters from Pavelich's Axis-puppet army were forming "Green Cadres" to harass the German. At Metkovich, Dalmatia, guerrillas derailed an Italian troop train, brought Italian casualties in Yugoslavia to a total of 5,000 men in five months...
Last week King Ananada was summoned home, ostensibly to learn the language of Thailand's great new puppet-master, Japan. Whether he could get home through the British blockade remained a question...
...great totalizator for bets on the final outcome of the war were possible, it would perhaps show that odds on the Axis were longer this spring than last. For one thing, it was getting harder for Adolf Hitler to manipulate his Balkan puppets. Steady sabotage, despite the Nazi firing squads, was one sign (see p. 31). Another was the brave defense of Yugoslavia's "Island of Freedom" (see p. 31). Still another was given last week when the Bulgarian Cabinet resigned after a majority was said to have rejected plans for Bulgaria which King Boris III brought home from...
Rumania was flooded with an issue of 20-lei banknotes on which had been rubber-stamped the slogans "Peace with the Soviet! . . . Down with Antonescu and Hitler! . . . We want Transylvania! [TIME, March 30] . . . Out with the Germans!" Rumanian society from top to bottom was angered by puppet Premier General Ion Antonescu's granting of heavy German demands for food and troops...
After the fight came into the open on Easter Sunday, when all but 60 of the 1,100 ministers in 97%-Lutheran Norway's State Church quit their posts rather than cooperate with the puppet regime, Vidkun Quisling lost round after round...