Word: puppetized
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...truce (TIME, June 5). Though it kept their armies out of an area south of the Great Wall as big as Ohio, and kept Japanese patrols inside to watch for "provocations," it saved face for Chiang Kai-shek by two omissions. It said nothing about Chinese recognition of the puppet state, Manchukuo, nothing about Japanese control of the railway from Peiping to Tangku. Besides saving Chiang Kai-shek's face, the omissions showed that Japan prefers to deal with him rather than with the scrabbling warlords who would take over China if he fell...
...Chinese army marching parallel to and cooperating with the Japanese troops. Its commander is a General Li Lichen who raised the old five-barred flag, first flag of the Chinese Republic, in Chinwangtao in March, is supposed to have been picked by Japan to head still another North China puppet state. This one's name would be HOPEIKUO...
...things belong to it. ... From Pacifism has sprung a nonfighting aspect on life. Pacifists wrote of one who died on the field of honor as if he died an unnatural death. The battlefield is for a man what motherhood is for a woman!" Seriously worried, Adolf Hitler summoned his puppet Reichstag to hear a great speech on Germany's foreign situation. Should he back down on rearmament he would lose face in Germany. Should he continue to roar he would draw the European ring tighter around him. Closer together than they had been since the War. hoping Hitler would...
...Lits. An assassin shot and gravely wounded that thoroughgoing scamp General Chang Ching-yao, onetime military governor of Hunan Province. Police announced that Chang's mission was to set up a monarchy in northern China with Japanese money. Monarch was to be hollow-eyed Henry Pu Yi. now puppet chief of puppet Manchukuo. Chang is "one of the most notoriously disreputable of all China's war-lords." For killing a U. S. missionary in 1920 he was later "pardoned," by whom nobody knows. His most notable reputation is for cowardice. As Governor of Hunan he reduced the province...
...transfer date to 1960. Last week China simply refused to believe that Russia had offered to sell the railroad Chinese had spoken for. Furthermore, because the road was built with French money, France had a claim. Last week Japan had a solution for the tangle. It primed the puppet Manchukuo Government to try to horn in as the heir of China's rights in the railroad. The Manchukuoan board chairman of the Chinese Eastern, Li Shao-ken, loudly claimed the road for Manchukuo. He added that, though Soviet rights in the road went back no further than...