Word: puppetized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hitler may present Crete to Mussolini, as he has presented him with the puppetries of Croatia and Montenegro and with a bit of Dalmatia, but such generosity costs Hitler nothing because Mussolini is a puppet of Hitler's. Well might the two dictators reach complete agreement; Mussolini can no longer...
...appeared last week that the airborne Germans who were rushing across Syria to Iraq were not particularly solicitous for their puppet revolt; that was serving its purpose of worrying the British very well unsupported. The Germans headed straight...
...last week's deal the cream of the Dalmatian coast went, not to puppet Croatia, but to the Kingdom of Italy. Benito Mussolini also knows that Napoleonic kingdoms are not always permanent. For the present, however, Il Duce and his King Aimone will have the loyalty of Poglavnik Pavelitch, who plotted the assassination of King Alexander for Il Duce, then hid out in Italy for seven years until he could help in the assassination of Yugoslavia. Serbian komitajis had a better idea: in their list of men marked for assassination, Pavelitch's name led all the rest...
Preparations had been noticeable for some time. Observers had seen camels in Bulgaria, transport planes in Greece, seagoing barges at the Danube's mouth. Correspondents had seen Rumania's Puppet Premier General Ion Antonescu stage a ceremonial farewell for German troops faring southeastward. The Greek islands had been seized. German torpedo boats had appeared in the Aegean, and Nazi "tourists" in their outlandish, paper-stiff civvies had appeared in Syria. The German-French agreement (see p. 27), officially opening Syria to the Nazis, had been signed and sealed...
...suspicion of spying-who told of the "odor of death which hangs over the half-destroyed capital" as he watched German soldiers dig out a few of the 7,000 dead, the 10,000 wounded. Stranded in Zagreb was A.P. Correspondent Max Harrelson, his passport seized by the new puppet Croat Government...