Word: puppetizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly a million men. So far Japan apparently expects to oppose all this with just one general. Lieut. General Kiyoshi Kazuki, commandant at Tientsin (see cut), who was not only fighting Japan's war last week but busying himself with the details of setting up another Japanese puppet state in the Peiping North China area. During all this Premier Fumimaro Konoye took to his bed in Tokyo, ostensibly overcome by the heat...
...have been upped and the 14-year reign of the late King Fuad was marked by more material progress in Egypt than the previous 2,000 years. His Late Majesty, however. was a definitely strong Egyptian character, obliged though King Fuad was often to behave as an acceptable British puppet. Behind the scenes and at moments when British pressure was relaxed. Fuad I was always wangling this or that concession for Egypt from her masters, set an example which 18-year-old Farouk I will have to show the character and tenacity of a Yorkshire governess to equal...
Such conduct as this looked inexplicable to Western eyes lacking the historic focus of North China. Between 1931 and 1934 Japanese soldiers set up the genealogically ''legitimate heir" to the Throne of China as the Emperor of Manchukuo (see map), their puppet His Majesty Kang Te. The next logical step would be to seat this Manchu Emperor on the Dragon Throne of his ancestors at Peiping. To engineer such a coup, Japan sent to China her master schemer and spy, Major General Kenji Doihara who intrigued and bribed for the five North China provinces of Hopei, Chahar, Suiyuan...
...whether General Sung's nominal superiors, the Nanking Government, were really sending north "Chiang's Own" and were in earnest about war with Japan or whether instead Nanking would tolerate the setting up of General Sung's territory as "another kuo," that is, as a Japanese puppet state, per-haps to be called Huapeikuo ("North China Country...
...opening stages the Japanese-Russian quarrel was based on flatly contradictory statements by Tokyo and Moscow about something alleged to have occurred on the murky Amur River, which for much of its length forms the frontier between Soviet Siberia and Japan's puppet empire of Manchukuo (see map). Ambassador Shigemitsu was instructed to say that Japanese and Manchukuoan soldiers, while peacefully swimming in the Amur, had been fired upon by a Soviet gunboat, soon sunk by the avenging fire of their shore batteries. To this Commissar Litvinoff replied that a Japanese-Manchukuoan gunboat had opened fire on a Soviet...