Word: puppetized
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Revolt against the Russians was reported breaking out in Estonia; the Germans set up a puppet Government for Lithuania. If the Germans could quickly sew up the Baltic littoral, they would not only have developed the northern arm of the master pincers; they would also have deprived Russia of bases for her large fleet of submarines, which might prove embarrassing to the German flow of ore from Sweden...
Invading Russia beat Napoleon. Perhaps it beat Kaiser Wilhelm. But Adolf Hitler thinks he can do it differently. He is deep in plans for the Ukraine. Some time ago he discovered Puppet Skoropadsky living on memories, polishing the Order of the Black Eagle which the Kaiser had given him, in a little house on the Wannsee, near Berlin. Skoropadsky thought his violent days were over; he no longer played the Cossack blindman's buff in which the blindfolded man tries to shoot his companions...
Handsome, brilliant, persuasive, emotional Wang Ching-wei, Japan's puppet President of China, during most of his 57 years has been haunted by the ghost of power, the fantasy of cheering crowds. For praise and power he has already sacrificed the memory of his master, Sun Yatsen, the trust of the Chinese people and his own principles. So last week he actually got an ovation...
...week Venetians had a chance to forget for an hour or so the scarcity of tourists, the scariness of the war, watching a little parade file into the pink splendor of the Doges' Palace. Occasion: the signing up of the ninth member of the Axis team, the rookie puppet State of Croatia...
...eight miles below Saigon-only 675 miles from Singapore. Russia added to the encouragement it has given Japan's hotheads in the Non-Aggression Pact by signing a new $14,000,000 barter agreement (last year's Russo-Japanese trade was less than $2,000,000). Also Puppet Ruler Wang Chingwei of Nanking left for Tokyo to be received in splendor by Emperor Hirohito. His visit was said to be connected with the attempted formation of a "peace bloc" including Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and Nanking which would assure them all of co-prosperity, end Russia...