Word: puppetized
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...Canton inland to Hankow ("The Chicago of China"); then 600 miles down the Yangtze River to Shanghai ("The New York of China") and Nanking-was not primarily a great feat of arms. General Chiang had not yet developed many of his great qualities. He was almost an out-&-out puppet of the Soviet Union, but, as both Japan and Russia have found to their cost, no Chinese ever fully sells himself or China...
...Marshal's son & heir, Chang Hsueh-liang, "The Young Marshal," blamed the Japanese for his father's somewhat mysterious assassination, and allied himself with Chiang. Six years ago the Japanese drove The Young Marshal out of Manchuria and reorganized it as their puppet state Manchukuo, but the rest of China had been brought under the flag of the Nanking Government, that is, of Generalissimo Chiang (TIME...
...much heard of in 1935 when he was Acting Chairman of the Peiping Political Council. At that time the Japanese forced Mr. Wang out and had the Council dissolved, explaining that he was not sufficiently pro-Japanese. This week they seemed to think Wang would make a fine puppet head for China...
...Japanese face a further problem. Their puppet government, like all governments in China, can remain stable only if the Chinese populace tacitly acquiesce in it. Will arrogant Japanese advisers be able to conciliate the peasantry at the same time that they try to make them pay for rehabilitating the country...
...blind us to Japan's capacities. She may be expected to succeed, up to a certain point. The great danger is that Japan will succeed only half-way,--destroy in large areas the control of the Chinese nationalist government and yet lack the means to maintain really stable puppet governments. In short, the Sino-Japanese problem has barely been created. The one certainty is that trouble will continue in China for many years to come