Word: puppetized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favor their cause, the Japanese prize him like some fragile T'ang Dynasty vase. Despite his record as a shifty recreant, despite the fact that Chinese honor him only in hatred, Wang is a brilliant mystic, not to be lightly dismissed. His establishment as Japan's super-puppet is therefore a major event in the China war. Japan hopes he will be able to bring about peace, but his beginnings last week augured ill for their hopes...
With utter tactlessness, Wang declared his Government the representative of the original and only Kuomintang (Nationalist Party), preempted the flag with a twelve-point star which Chinese soldiers carry in battle, absorbed all existing Japanese puppet regimes, commanded China's civil servants to leave Chungking and join him. He took a trip to Sun Yat-sen's tomb at Purple Mountain, near Nanking, there prayed and wept. By week's end he blandly approved "liquidation of the Chungking regime"-something 1,125,000 Japanese soldiers have spent two-and-one-half years trying to accomplish; and ordered...
...what are the terms of the pact he has made with Japan. "Now is not the time," bleated Wang in Shanghai, diving like a prairie dog into a Japanese steamer which chugged off up the swirling Yangtze, escorted by five Japanese gunboats. Lest somebody take a pot shot at Puppet Wang from the river bank, Japanese puppeteers kept him below decks, Japanese censorship choked off all news of what happened when "the new Premier" reached sacked and gutted Nanking...
...bolster up Wang prestige, Japanese army bigwigs in China who operate the puppet strings have been demanding that a top-rank Japanese statesman be sent as Tokyo's first Ambassador to the new Nanking puppet show. This week General Nobuyuki Abe, Premier of Japan until last January, was named Special Envoy and Ambassador Plenipotentiary by the Son of Heaven...
...first anniversary of subjugation by Germany, Adolf Hitler and Emil Hacha, president of the Protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia, exchanged telegrams. The dictator wired: "It is no intention of Germany to put a burden on the Czech people that might threaten their national existence. ..." The puppet president wired that Bohemia hoped for the victory of Germany's "glorious armed forces...