Word: puppetized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before President Roosevelt boarded his train, it became clear that he had not made a complete turnabout on aid to other democracies. A terse White House announcement-coming on the heels of Japan's peace treaty with her puppet Nanking regime-made known that the U. S. had arranged to make $100,000,000 available to China. Half of this would come from the Treasury's stabilization fund to support Chinese currency ; half would be put up by the Export-Import Bank, against Chinese shipments of wolframite (tungsten ore), antimony, tin, for the U. S. strategic materials stockpile...
...adopting the program of Peasant Party Leader Juliu Maniu, Antonescu had stolen the thunder from his most popular opponent, had picked up the most popular issue in the country. If that failed to stop the Guard, Germany was ready to take over through a new and weaker puppet. Through the streets of Bucharest rode King Mihai I, a lone Rumanian significantly bringing up the rear of a Nazi motorized division...
...Hussein Sirry Pasha left no doubt that Egypt is now giving Britain all aid and cooperation short of declaring war on the Axis, whose planes again bombed Alexandria, operating base of the British Mediterranean Fleet. Since Egypt has been for years a more or less willing British puppet, it could be assumed that Premier Sirry was keeping his fingers crossed in agreement with London, but this policy is increasingly unpopular among the young Egyptian malcontents of Cairo. Last week they were in angry mood, kept calling on King and Premier for "Vengeance and Italian blood...
...presentation of the case for militant aid cannot be disposed of so easily as Professor Elliott's childish toy-soldier complex. The Law Professor said that if England is defeated, the Nazis will penetrate South American via the barter route, following up economic with political infiltration, and setting up puppet regimes in state after state until the Panama Canal is threatened and the United States is left helpless, alone, and fatally vulnerable...
There are a clown who has worked several summers with a circus, a cowboy rope spinner, a handwriting expert, two palmists, and two complete puppet shown...