Word: puppetized
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...drunk complimentary toasts with the Japanese Ambassador while Chinese troops were being mowed down by Japanese machine guns in North China (TIME, June 24). To their credit the Chinese Government have the magnificent negative achievement that they have not yet been forced to extend official diplomatic recognition to the puppet Empire of Manchukuo, carved by Japan out of part of North China beyond the Great Wall...
Piece of Pork. This Japanese Army pronouncement had the authentic ring of those which preceded Japan's invasion of Manchuria and setting up of the puppet Empire of Manchukuo. Today the Nanking Government is already so pliant toward Japan that further acquiescence is well nigh impossible if the Government is to remain in any sense Chinese. Immediately ahead and prior to a Japanese armed advance seemed to lie a period of setting more and more venal Chinese upon North China's seats of local power. Of these wretched creatures Japan's favorite last week was the former...
...ride the rails of Japan's famed South Manchuria Railway. An economic spear stuck halfway up into Manchuria, the S. M. R. was the chugging juggernaut that carried Japanese troops to their scrappy victories. Soon Hsinking, the point of the S. M. R. spear, became the capital of puppet Emperor Henry Pu Yi (TIME, March 5, 1934). Beyond that point, S. M. R. trains have been unable to go on over a spur of the Chinese Eastern to the great Russianized city of Harbin because prudent Tsar Nicholas II had Russia's rails spaced 3½ inches farther...
...Japanese Emperor is said to have a homely knowledge of biology, remarked that His Majesty might have achieved more as a scientist than he has as an Emperor. Mentioning that Emperor Hirohito of Japan has little real power, New Life then mentioned Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo as "the puppet of a puppet...
...newspapers in North China have been suppressed. Chinese and Japanese censorship remained ironclad. Japanese bombing planes thundered menacingly over Peiping. In Tientsin with feverish activity Japanese architects and landscape gardeners started doing over a onetime Imperial residence as if it might soon be occupied by Japan's puppet Emperor Rang Te of Manchukuo, the onetime authentic Emperor Hsuan Tung...