Word: puppetized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Invading Russia beat Napoleon. Perhaps it beat Kaiser Wilhelm. But Adolf Hitler thinks he can do it differently. He is deep in plans for the Ukraine. Some time ago he discovered Puppet Skoropadsky living on memories, polishing the Order of the Black Eagle which the Kaiser had given him, in a little house on the Wannsee, near Berlin. Skoropadsky thought his violent days were over; he no longer played the Cossack blindman's buff in which the blindfolded man tries to shoot his companions...
Handsome, brilliant, persuasive, emotional Wang Ching-wei, Japan's puppet President of China, during most of his 57 years has been haunted by the ghost of power, the fantasy of cheering crowds. For praise and power he has already sacrificed the memory of his master, Sun Yatsen, the trust of the Chinese people and his own principles. So last week he actually got an ovation...
...capital, Nanking, where he rides between rows of guards who watch for assassins, but in Tokyo last week Wang rode beaming past 50,000 admiring people from the railroad station to his Puppet Embassy. They waved flags, they shouted "Banzai!" Wang doffed his plug...
...Chungking regime . . . insinuates that Wang Ching-wei is a puppet in the hands of Japan . . . having fallen victim to the fangs of Japanese aggression...
From the mouthpiece of a mouthpiece, Puppet Wang's Finance Minister Chou Fu-hai, came the real reason for Wang's junket, the act behind the ballyhoo. It took the form of three suggestions that were certainly not impure ideas. Chou hoped that Japan would: 1) extend Nanking's power north and south; 2) control business less stringently; 3) change the form of Japanese-Chinese joint industries so that Chinese might be induced to invest in them...