Word: puppetized
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...North, hollow-eyed Henry Pu Yi, Japan's puppet ruler of Manchukuo, wondered how soon he would be returned to his old home. A faction in the Japanese Supreme War Council was known to be waiting only for spring and the thawing of the roads to driv.e straight to Peiping and set Henry Pu Yi back on a throne in the Forbidden City...
...Rudolf Hecht's side last week rallied Huey Long and his puppet Governor Oscar Kelly Allen. It was Huey Long, in New Orleans to fight a Senate investigation of his political steamroller, who ordered a public holiday on Saturday to give the Hibernia a 48-hour breathing spell over the weekend. But no one at the Friday night conference could recall any historic event that occurred on Feb. 4. Routed from his bed, the city librarian ploughed through volumes of histories. Hours later he reported: "Nothing ever happened in this world on Feb. 4." His thanks was a blast...
Thirty-five troop trains had bellowed down from Mukden, Japan's Manchurian war base, to the borderlands of Jehol where railways end. Japanese, though they have never held Jehol, claimed it as part of their puppet state "Manchukuo." Last week Japanese were pained by what seemed to them the ignorance of Western editors in printing such headlines as this in Manhattan's Herald Tribune: JEHOL INVADED BY JAPANESE, CHINA LEARNS. On the contrary, Imperial Japan claimed to be "repulsing" from Jehol soldiers who by their mere presence there were clearly bandits and invaders of Manchukuo...
...victory had two obvious advantages: 1) If Japan decides to strike at Peiping and Tientsin she holds the Thermopylae through which her Army must pass; 2) if, which is more immediately likely, Japan decides to seize Jehol Province just outside the Great Wall and add it to Manchukuo, her puppet state. Japanese control of Shanhaikwan will block any effective steps which Chinese might try to take to protect Jehol...
...cost of conquering Manchuria, turning it into "Independent Manchukuo," and the constantly increasing cost of policing Japan's puppet state have brought the Empire to a fiscal brink. Next year's budget is to balance at the largest figure in the history of Japan-the fantastic sum of 2,239,000,000 yen ($1,119,500,000 at par, $470,019,000 at current exchange). So much money cannot be raised by taxation. It is to be raised by what will amount to forced internal loans with consequent inflation and further depreciation of the yen. Clearly the only...