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...Nazis did have the sense to install as their No. 1 puppet a Slovak who commands a real following: a canny, bulletheaded nationalist and priest named Joseph Tiso. With political craft and German aid, Tiso has: 1) fed his countrymen relatively well; 2) provided state jobs; 3) promoted Slovaks in government service; 4) suppressed pro-Czechs, by deporting them or threatening...
...Paraguay's recognition of Argentina's President Edelmiro Farrell (TIME, March 20). Foreign Minister Luis Argana and two other pro-U.S. Ministers in Morinigo's Cabinet were allowed to stay a short time, but last week they were fired. Morinigo became an army-bossed puppet...
...Price Administrator Brown will be no puppet. An able administrator, well-versed in law and economics, he is a popular candidate with all concerned...
Gestapo's Choice. None could say for certain which or how many Rumanians Prince Stirbey spoke for. Anyone could see that he would not be at large in a warring world without: 1) Puppet-Dictator Marshal Ion ("Red Dog") Antonescu's permission; 2) the Gestapo's connivance. Some could see a telltale in the way the Gestapo detained Princess Elise a week at the Bulgarian border as a British subject, then inexplicably let her follow her father to Ankara. The Princess' husband, Major Edward Boxhall, now in the War Office in London, formerly represented armament-makers...
...therefore, Russia values America's friendship as we believe she does, she must not use her power to impose either an unjust frontier or a puppet government upon the Polish people. Russia must choose. She can impose her will but she cannot impose it without estranging millions of Americans whose opinions may be decisive in the development of our foreign policy. And Russia will estrange others besides Americans, for what will millions of citizens of the small conquered (and satellite) countries have to hope from an Allied victory, if this is how we discharge our obligations to Poland? Such...