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Subtle Doihara may or may not have provoked the "incident" at Mukden (TIME, Sept. 28, 1931) which enabled Japan to set up Manchukuo as a puppet state. He was chief of the Japanese Army Secret Service in Mukden at the time- the service which makes incidents. Few months later Doihara was in Harbin before those unfortunate outbreaks of "banditry" which caused Japan to take that strategic city on the Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, Feb. 22, 1932). Later it was perhaps Doihara who fomented enough "unrest" in Tientsin to excuse the bringing in of Japanese troops who imposed the humiliating Tangku...
Comrade Stalin's pleasure was made known by Comrade Mussabekov, President of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic. In the Soviet Union there are seven such Federal republics and seven such puppet Presidents. Said President Mussabekov, addressing the All-Union Congress of Soviets: "I believe our beloved country is now virtually rid of Capitalist elements. Consequently we can advance to a new stage in the development of Socialism: the secret ballot, direct elections and equalization of the voting rights of peasants and proletarians...
...learned almost immediately that Boris was practically a prisoner of the dictatorship, that the real dictator was not Through-the-Middle-Man Gueorguieff but a sly Col. Damyam Veltcheff. Col. Veltcheff's plan was to force Tsar Boris to sign away most of his prerogatives and become a puppet king...
Does the onetime Secretary of Agriculture deny that, as TIME stated, "For seven long years His Majesty played the role of British puppet with a certain grace. distracting himself with such harmless amusements as riding around & around the royal gardens at Alexandria on a white...
...most critics Stravinsky was most inspired during the four Paris years that followed. His Firebird was a blaze of color, marvelously decorative in every detail. Year later came Petroitchka, with Nijinsky enacting the poor sawdust puppet who briefly had a soul. In that exuberant work woodwinds ran riot and to many they seemed altogether tuneless...