Word: puppetized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Logical choice for a puppet ruler of the puppet kingdom of Montenegro is Prince Michael Petrovitch, nephew of Italy's Queen Elena, grandson of Montenegro's last ruler, King Nicholas. The 36-year-old princeling, who has lived most of his life in exile in France, was recently chosen by the Axis as Montenegro's new Regent...
Last week came word that Prince Michael had turned the Axis kingmakers down flat. Said the Prince: "I am a Serb. As a Serb I shall never betray King Peter." After refusing the job, said London reports, the puppet-elect was promptly interned in Germany...
...trying in a few days to undo their work of the last two years. While the Non-Aggression Pact with Germany was in force Russia had nimbly followed the Nazis' lead, as one country after another fell prey to Hitler, disowning their exiled governments, recognizing German sovereignty or puppet regimes. Now, as a half-digested German conquest herself, she wanted to make friends...
...forced to grasp two electrally charged tubes and the voltage was gradually stepped up. Every inch ofm y body trembled like jelly. I felt as though I were going to burst." But Liu did not talk; months later the Japanese released him, still under suspicion, let him join the Puppet Government at Nanking. Traveling one day from Shanghai to Nanking by train, Liu outwitted shadowing spies, slipped off at a way station. By devious route he then made his way to Chungking, told his story to Steele...
With disloyalists like Japanese Puppet Wang Ching-wei and other questionable elements, China faces the fifth-column problem in an acute form, and Chiang is acutely conscious of it. He refers his people not to the fall of France but to Chinese history: "You should instruct our people to take lessons from the annals of the Sung and Ming Dynasties. The fall of these two dynasties was not caused by outside enemies with a superior force, but by a dispirited and cowardly minority in the governing class and the society of the time. . . . If we do not destroy ourselves...