Word: puppetized
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...inferencepported by London rumorshe might be set up as a Japanese puppet in Peking...
Apparently it is. That extraordinary man, whose family have supplied the "Mayors of the Palace"* to the present Rumanian dynasty since its inception (1866), is not now Premier, but Premier General Averescu is universally admitted to be his puppet. The Bratiano clan controls the oil and much of the industry of Rumania. More vitally it controls the indescribably corrupt electoral machinery of Rumania by which new parties achieve overwhelming majorities and old ones are wiped out by the figurative pressure of a button: the button connecting the residence of Jon Bratiano by private telephone with the office of the Chief...
...these become atrophied and useless. When all our acts are preordained and regulated by law, there is left no field for the exercise of our judgment, determination, or any of our faculties. These become stagnant, and the individual, deprived of that which made him an individual, becomes a mere puppet in the hands...
...seized the Government (TIME, May 24). Hesitant, irresolute, he could not bring himself to accept the responsibility either of ruling Poland as a dictator or of heading the State as Premier. Instead he temporized, forced the Sejm to elect one Ignatz Moscicld President of Poland and to confirm the puppet Cabinet of Premier Bartel. Since then Marshal Pilsudski has snapped the whip over President and Premier from the post of Minister of War; and Polish politics have degenerated into bedlam. Last week the Deputies of the Sejm, knowing that Pilsudski with the army at his back could and very well...
...French Resident-General in the French Protectorate of Morocco, to "advise" (command) the Sultan as to his every official act. Through this politic subterfuge, the despotism of Mulai Yusef, unrestricted by any law, civil or religious, is employed with great convenience by France. Last week General Steeg "advised" his puppet-Sultan, though informally, to observe the dancing of the so-called Charleston by Occidental females of fashion at the Chateau de Madrid in the Bois de Boulogne...