Word: puppetized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody ever accused Japan or Germany of having a sense of humor; and only they could have staged the puppet show that amused the world last week. One by one Germany's battery of stooges-Rumania, Croatia, Slovakia, Italy and Bulgaria-announced they would recognize Japan's Wang Ching-wei and his marionette Government in Nanking. Germany did likewise. This was Germany's bid for Japan's help, or at least good will, in the Russo-German...
...Japanese Puppet Wang Ching-wei: "In my dealings with people, I have always followed the principle of not resorting to ugly words. . . . Now I cannot but denounce him as a traitor to his country...
...fears moved much of Europe to fall in with Hitler's bloody crusade. The strongest was fear of Germany, which now ruled the Continent and its puppet governments. The second was fear of Pan-Slavism, which was rooted in many Europeans, especially Germans and Scandinavians, long before Karl Marx was born...
Against this Europe, with its puppet governments and Naziphile legions ranged beside conquering Germany, stood another Europe. It was the Europe of the nine governments-in-exile, the Europe of civilized refugees and hostages, the Europe of conquered peasants and workers-and this other Europe was still at war against Germany. Truth was that only one man in all Europe could call Europe to a holy war, could arouse the little European to a truly religious fear and hatred of Communism...
...Pavlo Petrovich Skoropadsky, 67, of Berlin, an amiable old schemer who was Germany's Ukrainian puppet in 1918 (TIME, June 30). Since his brief puppet leadership ended with Germany's World War I defeat he has lived on a German pension. His chief sponsor today is said to be Hermann Göring. Finagling old Pavlo Skoropadsky is not too popular with the Nazis' Russian-Ukrainian expert Alfred Rosenberg, a smart man, nor with many Ukrainians who think him stupid...