Word: puppetized
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...great totalizator for bets on the final outcome of the war were possible, it would perhaps show that odds on the Axis were longer this spring than last. For one thing, it was getting harder for Adolf Hitler to manipulate his Balkan puppets. Steady sabotage, despite the Nazi firing squads, was one sign (see p. 31). Another was the brave defense of Yugoslavia's "Island of Freedom" (see p. 31). Still another was given last week when the Bulgarian Cabinet resigned after a majority was said to have rejected plans for Bulgaria which King Boris III brought home from...
Rumania was flooded with an issue of 20-lei banknotes on which had been rubber-stamped the slogans "Peace with the Soviet! . . . Down with Antonescu and Hitler! . . . We want Transylvania! [TIME, March 30] . . . Out with the Germans!" Rumanian society from top to bottom was angered by puppet Premier General Ion Antonescu's granting of heavy German demands for food and troops...
...Zagreb, capital of "independent" Croatia, curfew rings at 11. A fortnight ago, intrigued by the announcement that curfew would not ring that night until 12, the good folk of Zagreb gathered inquisitively in the main square. Shortly after 11, Foreign Minister Mladen Lorkovich appeared, thundered that the puppet government of Ante Pavelich had decided to declare...
...their dreams of a united Arabia come true. Two of the chief propagandists, operating from Rome, were Iraq's ousted quisling Premier, Rashid Ali El-Gailani, and the sly, self-styled Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Jah Amin el Husseini. In Syria, mass dislike of the Free French-British puppet Government was breaking out in the form of bread riots. In Iraq, pro-Axis youth movements were active. In Iran, the Japanese Legation was a propaganda hotbed...
...Hitler's puppet States were almost at war last week. They snarled at each other like angry dogs over a bone. The bone was Transylvania which the Allies snatched from Hungary and tossed to Rumania for fighting against Germany in the last war. At the Vienna Conference in 1940 Hitler broke the bone in two, gave half of it back to Hungary. Lately he has been telling both countries that the one which helps him the most in Russia will get the whole bone, for keeps. Now it looked as if neither Hungary nor Rumania cared to wait much...