Word: puppets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian agent got wind of a secret patriotic organization called the Committee for Kurdish Youth, and promptly sent two agents, in the guise of horse traders, to offer "help." The youth organization grew into a full-fledged Communist party and, by the end of 1945, into a Communist puppet regime. At Mehabad, in Persian Kurdistan, the "Kurdish People's Republic" was proclaimed under the watchful eyes of Red army Tommy gunners...
...puppet state was squashed within a year by the Persian army, which marched into Mehabad and hanged its president to a flagpole. But the "People's Republic" left several legacies, including General Barzani, who had headed the puppet state's army and managed to fight his way back to Russia. I asked a Kurdish officer serving in the Iraq army what would happen if Barzani's men came down across the border, calling on the Kurds to arise and unite. He answered: "Any Kurd-and I am proud to call myself one-would have a hard time...
Stevenson had scarcely boarded the plane which took him back to Illinois when Dwight Eisenhower used the briefing session as evidence in support of the two main G.O.P. campaign charges: 1) that Stevenson is a Truman puppet; 2) that Truman will swing the Government's weight behind the Democratic candidate. The Stevenson briefing session, said Ike, "implied a decision to involve responsible nonpolitical officers of our Government . . . in a political campaign . . ." It also raised a question "as to whether the President and his Cabinet can possibly contemplate using the resources of the Federal Government to influence the judgements...
Last week, on Hungary's warmest summer day, sweat gathered on Rakosi's bulging, bald head and poured down his round face as he took the last slice of the salami. The puppet Hungarian National Assembly, which usually meets for a few dutiful days twice a year, held a special session and crowned Matyas Rakosi Premier of Hungary. Appropriately, Rakosi was clad in black...
...King* succeeded his grandfather, King Sisowath II, in 1941. The Japanese army which occupied Pnompenh, kept its royal prisoner in his gilded cage; real power in Cambodia was exercised by a shifty-eyed demagogue and Japanese puppet named Son Ngoc Thanh. After V-J day, Puppet Son Ngoc Thanh was sent to jail in France; the King enrolled as a student officer (honorary rank: brigadier general) at the French army's school of cavalry and armor. His Majesty was a brilliant student. He returned to his people in 1947 an excellent horseman, an accomplished linguist and an enthusiastic driver...