Word: puppetized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which has no rumble seat). One of them was supposed to be no less a person than Prince Fumimaro Konoye. British Ambassador Sir Archibald Kerr Clark Kerr was later said to have peace terms for Chiang. Mme. Chiang flew to Hong Kong: she was going to talk peace with Puppet-Elect Wang Ching-wei. The U. S., British and French Ambassadors met in Shanghai; they were talking peace. They met in Chungking; they were talking peace. Last week Shanghai's onetime Mayor Wu Te-chen was in Hong Kong; he too was rumored making peace feelers...
...conferred with Sir Samuel and with Franco. Safe in the U. S., the Chicago Daily News's Hungarian-born Correspondent M. W. Fodor wrote a sensational story of which the two main points were: 1)Germany wants to put the Duke back on the throne as its puppet (which has been journalists' gossip for months); 2) Edward's little Duchess was once the good friend of Joachim von Ribbentrop (which has been common knowledge for years). All in all, the peace story was a good yarn, and in Rome and Berlin, as well...
...puppet zoo on the desk of Franklin D. Roosevelt (a red rooster, two penguins, a grey hen, an owl, six Democratic donkeys) was added an elephant...
...began the first big drive of spring 1940 against Chinese forces on the plateau in northern Hupeh and southern Honan near Hankow, bomb-gutted "Chicago of China." Object was to win a victory spectacular enough to justify final and official recognition by the Imperial Japanese Government of their Chinese puppet ruler at Nanking, multiple-turncoat Wang Ching...
...Tokyo press labored mightily to raise Puppet Wang in Japanese esteem. Unlike most other peoples, the Japanese like their statesmen boozy. Several Japanese Premiers have been notoriously copious tosspots. It was therefore a great build-up of Chinese Puppet Wang in the eyes of Japanese when the Tokyo Hochi Shimbun (News) quoted Director Yakichiro Suma of the Japanese Foreign Office Information Service apropos his personal acquaintance with Wang Ching-wei some dozen years ago in Peiping...