Word: puppets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Filipinos had come to know Manuel Roxas well. He had once been a general with MacArthur, and was liked by the U.S. military. He was a member of Jose Laurel's puppet government during the Japanese occupation, but resisted all efforts of the Japs to take him to Tokyo. A lawyer, Roman Catholic, and President of the Senate, he is a magnetic, articulate orator, a serious student of economics. He had the support of most Filipino conservatives...
...criminal to trial, but only six hours to try him and a week to find him guilty. In the century-old mansion that houses the Kiangsu High Court at Soochow, Columbia-educated Chen Kung-po, last president of the late Wang Ching-wei's Nanking puppet regime, heard the judgment of his people: traitor, death...
...ironic variance with the literal translation of his name: "Exhibit Public Greatness." In the days when he was an honest man, Chen had never been more than a high-ranking functionary. Now he qualified as the great traitor only because Wang Ching-wei was dead and the Russians held Puppet Emperor Henry Pu-yi of Manchukuo...
Even at his trial Chen was in the shadow of a more colorful and sinister puppet. Wang Ching-wei's shrewd, fat, diabetic, bad-tempered widow, Chen Pi-chun, came before the court this week. Wang's closest political adviser, she henpecked her handsome husband and bullied her four grown children, three of whom have also been jailed. Chen Pi-chun was unrepentant, but she wrote her children that she was ready, even eager...
...area bigger than Texas. She has placed behind the quarantine of "friendly" (i.e., dociie) Governments the nations on her borders, and now has the two chief exceptions, Iran and Turkey, under deep-sea pressure. Even Iran's oil means less to her than the reassurance a puppet regime in Teheran would give...