Word: puppets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dogherty backed up his demand for a referendum by asserting that "the Student Council is just a puppet of the Administration." Specifically, he opposed its "strong-arm methods" of collecting contributions and its participation in the National Student Association...
Last week, despite the protests of writers from all over the world, including T. S. Eliot, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and even French Communist Poet Louis Aragon,* the puppet dictatorship of Janos Kadar sentenced Tibor Dery to nine years in prison for his revolutionary activities. Sentenced along with him were three other famed members of the Writers' Union: Playwright Gyula Hay, Journalist Tibor Tardos, Poet Zoltan Zelk, who wrote in a widely quoted poem...
...started, his police visited every school in refugee trouble spots, warned teachers that they faced instant arrest if they permitted any kind of demonstration by their students. Jordan's own radio returned salvo for salvo, refuting Nasser's charges, charging in turn that "Nasser is a Communist puppet" who is holding his people "under whip and chain...
Yugoslavia was the first nation outside the Soviet bloc to recognize the East German puppet regime. After nearly a week of dithering, Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano concluded that, whatever the cost, he could not back down on a public and frequently repeated threat. At week's end Brentano called in the Yugoslav ambassador and handed him his walking papers...
...East German regime a new diplomatic respectability, which would reinforce Russia's crafty argument that the way to reunite Germany is not by nationwide free elections (in which the Communists would be overwhelmed) but by some kind of deal between the Bonn government and East Germany's puppet rulers...