Word: puppets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dictator-Marshal Pilsudski, having installed his puppet, "Honest Ignatz Moscicki," as President of Poland (TIME, June 14), continued last week to dictate to the government of Poland as he pleased...
Significance. Sir Malcolm Delevingne was far from smoothing matters over when he contemptuously refused to take offense, postulating instead an obvious truth: that "the Chinese delegates represent only themselves," because the new "Government of China" (TIME, Dec. 8, 1924, CHINA) exists merely as a puppet show whose wires are pulled by military adventurers. (See CHINA...
...Steeg accordingly announced that, since Krim technically "rebelled" against the Sultan of Morocco at Fez instead of "attacking" France and Spain, the Sultan must decide his fate. As everyone knows, Sultan Mulai Yusef of Morocco is a mere puppet of the French. His "decision," unannounced last week, was presumably being drawn up at Paris by officials well informed of M. Steeg's reputed agreements...
This recrudescence of Wafd supremacy among the electorate again threw into jagged relief the ugly fact that Premier Ziwar has continued since 1924 at the head of the Egyptian Cabinet almost solely because he is acceptable to Britain, the unseen but mighty tweaker of Egyptian puppet strings...
...Sultan, Mulai Yusef, a big indolent man, who is supported by the French and Spanish as the puppet sovereign of Morocco. Venerable Moroccans were scandalized by his appearance at the fair en foot. Traditionally he should have arrived either on horseback or upon a portable throne, and heavily guarded in any case. Instead he dismissed his strapping Negro bodyguard at the gate of the fair and entered "practically unattended" - accompanied by only 32 Caids, four Pashas, two French Generals, and the French Resident General in Morocco, Jules Steeg...