Word: puppets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Observers at French Lick noted that the Democratic word-fire was concentrated against four special Republican targets: 1) Eisenhower is a puppet of Big Business; 2) Eisenhower has no feeling for human needs; 3) Eisenhower plays too much golf; 4) Eisenhower likes Nixon...
...with determined French colonialism. The tribesmen of Morocco slew hundreds and were slain by the hundreds in return; neither side troubled unduly to spare the innocent. The occasion for the bloodshed was local in nature but worldwide in its implications: Who should be Sultan of Morocco-a French puppet or the man the Moroccans themselves wanted as their Imam (Commander of the Faithful)? Deeper than this ran stronger currents: France's pride of empire, the Moroccans' longing for independence. In this confused situation, the nation that brought modern progress to a sterile land was made to seem oldfashioned...
...sacrificing Grandval himself to the wolves. At week's end there was prospect of a patched-up compromise. It promised to settle the question of who should be Sultan of Morocco by having no Sultan at all. Much depended on the timing, for if either Grandval or the puppet Sultan departed without the other's going too, one side or the other promised violence...
...Moslems throughout North Africa, Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa, the French puppet Sultan, is a false prophet and usurper. Last month the Moroccans served notice that La Date Fatidique would be a day of prayer and demonstrations for Moulay Arafa's removal and Ben Youssef's return. Terrorist tracts, bearing the black crescent sign of the Arab underground, quickly made plain what this might mean. In the sacred name of Allah, the tracts urged all Moroccans to "avenge our dead heroes cut down by Imperialist French bullets...
...vague and equivocal" (he wanted them "automatic"), opposed SEATO as "unduly provoking Red China," and launched a virulent attack on Magsaysay's recognition of South Viet Nam, "a despotic oligarchy" which "does not possess the most elementary attributes of sovereignty." Magsaysay, he charged, was acting as "an American puppet...