Word: puppetized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of Pinocchio, the little puppet who finally becomes a real boy, is a natural for Walt Disney, for the creation of life where there was none before is his own specialty as well as Geppetto's, the wood-carver. Dwelling lovingly over each faltering step Pinocchio makes toward boyhood, Disney has created a character far more moving than any child actor of flesh and blood has ever drawn. When Disney has oiled up his last joint, and taken the last squeak out of his hinges, here is a boy worthy to be the son of warm-hearted old Geppetto...
With Pinocchio comes a host of new sketches for the Disney gallery. Well out in front, striding along with a jaunty step, is Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio's "official conscience." A worldly-wise fellow with a good heart, he nurtures his puppet-ward watchfully but without sentimentality. Montro the Whale is living proof that a glob of blubber covering the screen, with an eye in the middle, can with a sneeze inspire both terror and laughter. J. Mortimer Foulfellow, who is a hair-brushed and Oxford-accented Big Bad Fox, is not only a contemptible villain, but a social satire...
Sweden's dynasty, like Sweden's people, was last week in a grim predicament. King Christian of Denmark, the father-in-law of Gustaf's granddaughter, is now a German puppet; and Christian's brother, Haakon of Norway, was a target for German bombs and bullets. While Norwegians were fighting for their lives and freedom, Swedes, their closest national relatives, dared not go to their defense. But this week as Nazi warplanes swarmed over Sweden King Gustaf sent a stiff protest to Berlin...
Osloans, now beginning to get their backs up, could and did resist self-appointed Premier Quisling. Failing to get cooperation from the people, Quisling gave way last week to a new puppet regime, headed by 68-year-old Infgolf Elster Christensen, former Conservative Cabinet Minister, since 1929 Governor of Oslo District. Blessed by the Norwegian Supreme Court, this regime was described by Berlin as the legally constituted Government of Norway. Aside from the ubiquitous Quisling, who was put in charge of demobilization, nearly all members of the interim Government were local Government officials and businessmen...
Theatres and churches continued to function, 90% of the citizens were said to have returned to their jobs, the puppet Government urged nonresistance. When Germans offered reichsmarks they got what they wanted to buy-at 1.66 kroner (40?) per reichsmark. Nevertheless, with its King in hiding, the city blacked out, food falling short and young men slipping off to the hills every night to join their Army, Oslo finally became resentful. Nazis shot snipers as usual. At least 100 Osloans were executed, many for refusing to chauffeur Germans to the front...