Word: puppets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Martyr Complex? In 1941, after the Germans took over Yugoslavia, they established a puppet state of Croatia, over which they put fanatic Nationalist Dr. Ante Pavelic. Archbishop Stepinac announced the founding of the new state from the cathedral and served on its councils, thereby earning the enmity of the Orthodox minority who were persecuted by Pavelic. Stepinac, however, opposed the excesses of the Pavelic regime, refused to accept its forcible converts to Catholicism, sheltered fugitive Jews...
Tito struck then, and the world was shocked by the cynical mockery of Stepi-nac's twelve-day trial for collaboration with the Nazi puppet regime during the war. The sentence: 16 years at hard labor...
Nine minutes later, TV screens lighted up again, and Castro, chomping nervously on his cigar, told the audience: "He came here to create an incident. Lojendio must leave Cuba within 24 hours!" At a glance from Castro, Cuba's puppet President Osvaldo Dorticos shot up to the mike to agree: "The national dignity permits no other solution. This is official!" Solemnly, Boxer Joe Louis, a perennial Castro guest, rose from the audience to praise the rebel soldiers for the way they had "protected" Lojendio from the studio crowd...
...Kishi's golf and restaurant dates with such influential businessmen as Sugar Magnate Aiichiro Fujiyama and Steelmaker Yoshisuke Aikawa, complained: "Kishi behaves as if he were the Minister instead of me!" Relations got so bad that Kishi quit and went to Manchuria as industrial adviser to the Japanese puppet government...