Word: puppetized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Revolt against the Russians was reported breaking out in Estonia; the Germans set up a puppet Government for Lithuania. If the Germans could quickly sew up the Baltic littoral, they would not only have developed the northern arm of the master pincers; they would also have deprived Russia of bases for her large fleet of submarines, which might prove embarrassing to the German flow of ore from Sweden...
Last week, according to a report on the Budapest radio, the Prince had moved, was ensconced in the royal residence in Belgrade. It appeared that the Axis had found just whom it wanted to head a Serbian puppet State...
...week Venetians had a chance to forget for an hour or so the scarcity of tourists, the scariness of the war, watching a little parade file into the pink splendor of the Doges' Palace. Occasion: the signing up of the ninth member of the Axis team, the rookie puppet State of Croatia...
...eight miles below Saigon-only 675 miles from Singapore. Russia added to the encouragement it has given Japan's hotheads in the Non-Aggression Pact by signing a new $14,000,000 barter agreement (last year's Russo-Japanese trade was less than $2,000,000). Also Puppet Ruler Wang Chingwei of Nanking left for Tokyo to be received in splendor by Emperor Hirohito. His visit was said to be connected with the attempted formation of a "peace bloc" including Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and Nanking which would assure them all of co-prosperity, end Russia...
...April a taxpayers' meeting voted in a new Provisional Council dominated by the Japanese. Its 16-seat membership: three Japanese, four representatives of the puppet Nanking Government, one German, three Britons, three Americans, one Swiss, one Hollander. The old order which the Japanese hammered to break for years: five Chinese, five Britons, two Americans, two Japanese...