Word: puppetized
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...Kremlin may abandon the policy of world revolution for an attempt to regain Russia's prerevolutionary boundaries, or it may try to set up a series of puppet communistic dictatorships in Eastern Europe, Professor Karpovich believes...
When all this had simmered down to a broth of truth, something like this remained: The Japanese were greatly impressed by Ambassador Grew's speech. The Government wanted to do something about it at once. But the Army (which usually prevails) wanted first to install Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei in China-accomplish the New Order, and then discuss it. Every Ambassador pays a routine call on a new Foreign Minister; hence last week's conversation. The talk was entirely friendly, and there was no threat. But Ambassador Grew again made clear the nature of U. S. complaints...
...policeman was killed and a Sikh colleague wounded in a Shanghai fracas, polo-playing, hard-working Chairman Cornell S. Franklin of the Shanghai Municipal Council announced that he might ask U. S. Marines to come into the International Settlement and do something the Japanese love to do-restore order. Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei, popping in and out of his fortified castle in Shanghai's "badlands," announced he was "satisfied that Japan's peace conditions toward China do not infringe on China's sovereignty or territorial rights...
Both the Chinese and the Japanese last week used the name of Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei as "reason" for the renewed offensive. Chinese officials warned their own people, and Japanese officials admitted, that the new pressure was intended to intimidate, discourage, force the populace of South China into endorsement of peace under Puppet-elect Wang. But as the Chinese claimed defense of Changsha was stiffening, Japanese admitted that the creation of Wang's Super-Puppetry had been postponed from mid-October to mid-November...
...would involve considerable concessions to Hitlerdom. It would mean a puppet Poland, and eventually it would mean a free economic hand for the Nazis in eastern Europe. There would have to be a redistribution of colonies. But if Hitler could be made to disarm, the victory would be likewise great for the democracies. Hitlerism-gangsterism as a diplomatic weapon-would be gone, and Europe could once more breathe easy. The British and French Empires would be reasonably intact. And there would be peace for our time...