Word: puppetized
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...years ago when America created the puppet Republic of Panama," chimed in Baron Newton (no descendant of Sir Isaac), "nobody said a word...
...would help them thwart the assassination of an especially honored guest of Japan's Divine Emperor bespectacled young Son-of-Heaven Hirohito With 15 days of such pomp as even the Orient has seldom seen, Japan was giving a $1,000,000 coming-out party for her shy puppet Emperor of Manchukuo His Majesty Kang...
When is a puppet not a puppet? Japan's answer is that the world simply must take seriously a crowned head in whose honor she deployed last week the Japanese combined fleets of more than 70 potent battle craft, each blazing away the 21-gun salute of an Emperor. This supreme honor Japan paid to a foreigner for the first time when Emperor Kang Te, in his babyhood the last Manchu ruler of China, approached Japan for the first time in his life on the Japanese Emperor's own flagship the Hiyei, his deeply sculptured features impassive beneath...
...well as of Manchukuo. In this retinue the little round tummy of Mr. Ryusaku Endo was prominent. In Manchukuo he bosses the Emperor, holds the all-embracing title of Secretary General of Manchukuan Affairs. Last week he began by effacing himself so that for once in his life the puppet Emperor could shine...
Since an orchid is the puppet Emperor's official flower, his Legation in Tokyo was decked with 750 orchids. Wherever he appeared Japanese schoolchildren, drilled for weeks in a Hymn to Manchukuo, shrilled it. In Tokyo he was quartered in Akasaka Palace, a replica of the Trianon Palace at Versailles and in 1922 the Tokyo residence of Edward of Wales. There Boss Endo suddenly popped up to announce: "While Emperor Rang Te is here no political matters will be discussed. None whatever. The Manchukuan Constitution effectively keeps the Manchukuo Court out of politics...