Word: puppetized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apparently the Japs had not yet found a really effective Filipino quisling. They announced the creation of a puppet Cabinet, with President Quezon's old aide, plump, moon-faced Jorge B. Vargas as "Chief Administrator." But U.S. Filipinos took Tokyo's announcement with a handful of salt, still had faith in Quezon's Vargas...
Nazis called these raids, slicing down out of the mountains, the attacks of "Communists and rebels." But the Nazis presently felt obliged to declare a state of war in Yugoslavia, and in October even sued for peace. A Serb puppet and several Nazi officers were taken, blindfolded, on a long motor ride to Mihailovich's mountain headquarters. When they refused his demand that the execution of Serbs stop, that the Nazis withdraw from Serb provinces (except Belgrade and Nish), General Mihailovich is said to have sworn to fight "to the last German." By the end of November the Nazis...
...expected that the Japanese would set up a vassal Government in Manila, put at its head a puppet President. Who? Not Manuel Quezon: even though Quezon in the past has shown no antipathy toward the Japs, Quezon is now committed to a last-ditch defense. And not Sergio Osmeña: the lean, calm, white-haired Vice President of the Philippines is half Chinese...
King Zog of Albania, exiled in London, begged to differ with the Italian puppet government in Tirana, declared Albania was not at war with the U.S. but with Italy...
Surrounded by the gilded cupids of Berlin's Kroll Opera House, facing the upturned faces of the puppet Reichstag. Reich Marshal Hermann Goring declared with beefy deference: "Führer, speak...