Word: puppetized
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...pinches of snuff they drew up a Confederation of Inner Mongolian States, haggled out its bylaws. Then they sent word to Nanking that they wanted to rule Inner Mongolia themselves. If Nanking tries to stop them, they threatened, they "will not hesitate to seek assistance" from Japan's puppet state of Manchukuo-will quit China and throw in with Japan. That would suit Japan beautifully. Inner Mongolia is the great stockyards that made Manchukuo worth grabbing...
...Britain, though slow to bestir herself, started to fight Japan's dumping prices by denouncing the 28-year-old Indo-Japanese trade treaty and sharply upping India's tariffs on non-British cotton. British West Africa followed suit. Egypt, whose fat King Fuad is a British puppet, promptly swung into line with higher tariffs. Later even Dutch Queen Wilhelmina's newly named "Netherlands India" (once the Dutch East Indies) joined in building the white man's tariff dike against Japan's cheap textiles...
...France grotesque emergencies which no man could foresee are left for solution to the President, normally an honored puppet in his Elysee Palace. Last week sad-eyed President Albert Lebrun brooded over the grotesquery presented by two children of Catillon...
...which are sure to intervene if the workers on the coast and in the interior approach political control and confiscate "American" property. No government can stand for long without paying its bills, and these cannot be met without aid from the Wall Street bunch. This means eventually a conservative puppet party will come to power, since it will be backed by the sugar and fruit plantation owners. But how long could that party last? The forces which overthrew Machado will remain, latent perhaps if they are crushed this time, but ready, soon or late, to spring up when the occasion...
...Grau San Martin Cabinet to put into effect. Nobody questioned their patriotism or their sincerity. They served without pay, swore to accept no government posts, but it was as though the Social Problems Club of Columbia University had taken over the U. S. Government and was telling a puppet cabinet what...