Word: puppetized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least until Russia openly approved Bulgaria's doing so. This answer was a shrewd one. Boris could see the weaknesses in the Russian-German mariage de convenance; he could also see its urgency from the German point of view. He played urgency against weakness. Meantime, the Bulgarian puppet Senate sent 6,000 kilos of cigarets to the German Army, probably the world's most magnificent gift of political tobacco...
Hatred for Franco and his Moorish troops, and fear of the attempts of Germany and Italy to make Spain a puppet state, served to unite formerly antagonistic groups into a coherent force which held out for three years against overwhelming odds...
Stravinsky: Suite from Petrouchka (Igor Stravinsky conducting the New York Philharmonic-Symphony; Columbia: 4 sides). Beautifully recorded excerpts from a ballet about the troubles of a puppet...
There were four main areas of Chinese push. Up north in Shansi a Chinese force of 20,000 was at work. In central China, near Nanking, Chinese mercenary troops of the Japanese puppet Wang Ching-wei reportedly revolted, blew up two Japanese troop trains and attacked several small villages. A Chinese force also attacked the town of Langsi and "liquidated all of the Japanese defenders." Farther south, only 100 miles from Shanghai, another Chinese Army forced its way across the Chientang River. In the extreme southwest, whence the Japanese carelessly drained troops for the investment of Indo-China, some...
Cornelius V. Starr, owner, and Randall Gould, editor, have been ordered out of the country by the puppet regime. Neither paid any attention. Gould is still at his post; Starr stayed four months, came home when he got ready, plans to return soon...