Word: puppetized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a storm broke upon Shanghai newsmen in a downpour of unexpected violence. First warning came like a clap of thunder in the form of an executive decree, issued by Wang Ching-wei's Japanese-puppet Government at Nanking, ordering the arrest and deportation from China of six U. S. newsmen, one Briton for "endeavoring to undermine the Chinese [i.e., Wang] Government ... by distributing rumors and improper statements endangering the Republic...
Back of last week's Japanese campaign of terror against U. S. newsmen and their Chinese friends was believed to be a 39-year-old Vice Minister of Propaganda for the puppet Government, Tang Leang...
...fancies himself a Chinese Goebbels. Born in The Netherlands Indies under the Dutch flag, educated in Britain, Austria, Germany, Puppet Tang has long admired Nazi methods...
...appeals to the Führer. Some weeks later Prince Janusz & Family were told they could leave Poland. Most went to Italy, whence some recently sailed to Brazil, but indomitable Prince Janusz chose to stick it out in Poland. Whether or not the Prince decides to head a puppet government, the Nazis in any case cannot give him back his historic Radziwill estates at present as these are in Soviet territory...
...entertaining the American-born, twice-divorced Duchess in London. No less relieved were English politicos who had uncomfortably listened to rumors of the former Wally Simpson's friendship for German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, heard reports that the Duke was willing to serve as a Nazi puppet king. Frankly delighted were the Duke's supporters who pounced on the chance to give him a job and a place to live safely out of the war zone...