Word: puppet
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...matter of grave moment to Japan," growled the Tokyo press, describing De Gaulle as "a mere puppet of the British Government." Major General Issaku Nishihara, head of a big Japanese mission now in Indo-China to squeeze concessions out of the new Vichy-appointed Governor General, Admiral Jean Decoux, whipped out an ultimatum. He demanded on threat of immediate invasion the use of French IndoChina's chief port, Haiphong, as a naval and air base, and permission to transport Japanese equipment and troops over the French-owned Indo-Chinese Railway for an attack on South China...
...that we are to preserve Christian civilization in our own land, we shall go to destruction. ... I hope that one hundred years from now this park will still belong ... to the people of a free nation . . . will not be in the hands of some strange kind of government puppet subject to an overseas overlord. I hope the use of it will not be confined to people coming hither on government-specified days and on government-directed tours...
Though the German-controlled Paris press hammered furiously at the Vichy Government, Parisians believed that. wobbly and temporary as it was, it was putting up a skillful, stubborn fight against the Germans. They did not understand how Americans could regard the Petain administration as a German puppet. For their own part, they hated Hitler who beat them, Reynaud who led them to defeat, but most of all the British for attacking their fleet at Oran and Dakar...
...resemble Paul Revere (see cut,p.11). Calling herself Pauline Revere, Miss Summers admonished the U. S.: "MOBILIZE FOR PEACE-DEFEAT CONSCRIPTION." Said alliterative Papa Summers (who in 1938 denounced Communists for luring his son Thane to death in Loyalist Spain): ". . . My pink daughter ... [on] a white horse ... a pretty puppet is paraded to propagandize against American preparedness . . . [by] Stalin's subtle stooges...
Symbolized by this puppet Pauline was the bulk of last week's "popular" opposition to conscription. Among the articulate minorities which frightened Congress were many sincere, substantial, respected groups. But in sum they made as weird a hash as was ever dumped on Washington...