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...Polish political situation is somewhat unusual. The President (pedagogic Professor Ignatz Moscicki) is the impotent puppet of Josef Pilsudski, Premier, Minister of War & Marshal of Poland, who is actually the law. Although he appears in the Sejm on important occasions (such as political crises, when he dons his much-worn military uniform to terrify his opponents), he leaves much governmental business to another puppet: Vice Premier & Minister of Religion & Education, Professor Kazimierz Bartel...
History alone can determine the full significance of this act; opinion may condemn it as politically immoral. The document was signed, critics agree, not by a kingly king but by a puppet of the Dictator. Moreover, it was signed on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the suppression of the constitution and the virtual abolition of the Cortes (Parliament) (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923). In its implications it is clearly designed to perpetuate the Primo de Rivera régime...
Everyone knows that Ahmed Fuad I is a British puppet and unpopular in Egypt, but honor done to him is still honor done to the Egyptian masses who must in the end attain their destiny and choose what nations to call "friend." While King Fuad was in residence with Italian royalty, he and his entire suite were required to enact a quaint mummery so that he might call at the Vatican. Etiquette forbids that any person shall pass directly between a residence of the King of Italy and the residence of the Pope. Therefore King Fuad was obliged to "reside...
...live, gnawing rat. Seldom has the complete inversion of Russia's civilization been more vividly sketched than by the Baron, who remained in Russia until 1920. Of all Russians he appears to despise most Alexander Kerensky (né Kirbitz), calls him the "Grand Eunuch of the Revolution . . . puppet [of the Soviet leaders] . . . seemed more like a . . . girl . . . selling herself to the first person she meets...
...life. Mr. Muir has used the intricate pattern of themal relationships in the fugal form upon which to base the coordination of his characters. There are the parallel situations in separate but allied planes, of Martin striving to influence his son, now clad in the costume of the puppet Faust, compared with Haas groping to move his own dolls as freely as dance the marionettes, and the complete harmonious development of each strand of story upon itself and upon every other strand is clothed in the descriptive melody of surrounding Salzaburg and the Tyrolean Alps...