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...Francaise start things off. Before the three-week festival is over, visitors will hear, in all, 1,630 musicians and actors from eight nations, including six orchestras, four choirs, five chamber ensembles, more than 40 soloists, three ballet companies, one opera company. The only cancellation: Professor Skupa's Puppet Theatre, which was forbidden by the Czech government to leave Prague...
...last week, an eight-year-old boy, his eye on the clock, said: "Mummy, I want to see Howdy Doody." Obediently his mother went to the television set. As the screen flickered to life, the face that appeared was not the familiar, freckled countenance of the famous TV puppet, but the cold, clean-cut face of a man talking Russian. Said the little boy, in a voice foreboding tears: "I want to see Howdy Doody...
...more than an hour with its French interpretation. Said he: "To call [the North Korean aggressors] the representatives of the Korean people must be only a tragic witticism when addressed to those who know how quickly nationalism, patriotism and independence in other countries have been crushed to produce subservient puppet governments-zombie governments that breathe and speak and act, but have no soul.* The United Nations tried to peer through the mists that enshroud this regime. Nothing could be seen. The only voice that was heard was an echo of a greater voice that had come rolling and rumbling across...
...Stalin shared this cover with China's Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, Japan's Emperor Hirohito and Henry Pu-Yi, the puppet Emperor of Manchukuo. The Japanese-led Manchurian army had clashed with Soviet-backed Mongol forces. Said TIME: "In the deep fastness of Western Asia, along nebulous frontiers supposed to divide Soviet power from the forces of Empire, battle was joined as a thousand Mongol rifles cracked and light Japanese tanks whirled into action. The fighting last week came as a grim climax. Preludes have been more than 100 frontier 'incidents' as the Japanese Empire...
...elder Paik, the colonel to whom I talked, had been sent by the Japanese to Manchukuo's Military Academy. He got his early military experience with the Manchurian puppet forces, fighting Chinese Communists of the Eighth Route Army...