Word: puppetized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terrorists who serve either the Japanese or their Chinese puppet, Wang Ching-wei, have bombed the Post plant five times, slaughtered guards, wounded pressmen, and last month murdered Samuel H. Chang, director of the Post and its Chinese edition...
Japanese newspapers went all the way out on the limb. In Nichi Nichi, Nationalist Leader Seigo Nakano proposed that Japan take over the foreign concessions in Shanghai and Tientsin, restore Hong Kong to China (i.e., to Japan's puppet Government at Nanking) and "restore The Netherlands Indies as an Asiatic country." In a telegram to Publisher Howard, Director Hoshio Mitsunaga of the Nippon Press Association suggested that the U. S. can prevent a crisis if it "abandons its fortifications at Pearl Harbor, Guam and the Midway Islands, gives up its support of Chiang Kai-shek and restores trade...
...matter of grave moment to Japan," growled the Tokyo press, describing De Gaulle as "a mere puppet of the British Government." Major General Issaku Nishihara, head of a big Japanese mission now in Indo-China to squeeze concessions out of the new Vichy-appointed Governor General, Admiral Jean Decoux, whipped out an ultimatum. He demanded on threat of immediate invasion the use of French IndoChina's chief port, Haiphong, as a naval and air base, and permission to transport Japanese equipment and troops over the French-owned Indo-Chinese Railway for an attack on South China...
...powers as dictator and vest them in Red Dog. This was the decisive step. Next night Dictator General Antonescu wore down the worried monarch further, and at 3 a.m. demanded in writing his abdication in favor of Crown Prince Mihai, a nice-looking boy just right to be a puppet. His Majesty signed away his throne two hours later...
...Lulu Malaxa, daughter of Rumania's richest industrialist, has long been Mihai's playmate, but her father was jailed last week as a suspected grafter and the young King seemed to take no interest. Over the air waves Rumanians heard new Dictator Antonescu say significantly to new Puppet King Mihai: "Sire, a prayer to God to help Your Majesty...