Word: puppeted
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...awakened in a Slovakian hospital, still under puppet Nazi rule. He was being given a blood transfusion. Slovakian doctors and nurses, at first against his will, kept him alive. He was a hero. The Polish underground movement voted him a decoration. The military division of the Polish Socialist Party was ordered to rescue him at any cost, or shoot him if they failed. They bribed a Gestapo guard and picked up Karski after he had jumped from a hospital window...
...were holding off direct attack to save the city or save their troops, no one could tell. But the Germans said Budapest would never be declared an open city, announced they would "defend it street by street without regard to consequences to the city or its population." The Hungarian puppet Government echoed them uneasily, prodded its soldiers with promises. Said the War Minister: troops will receive higher pay, postwar jobs, and "I have every hope that every fighting man will be provided with adequate warm clothing...
Ever since he became puppet ruler of Jap-conquered China five years ago, Wang Ching-wei had expected death-at the hands of assassins. For several years he had carried in his body one bullet that failed to kill him. But last fortnight, when death, as it must to all men, came to China's No.11 traitor (aged 60, in a Japanese hospital), it came not from gunfire but from diabetes...
...China incident" (1937). First an ardent advocate of Chinese resistance, he later changed his mind, plumped for a "peaceful settlement" with Japan. One day, while still chairman of the central political council and second in command to Chiang Kaishek, he slipped away from Chungking to Nanking. Japan, looking fora puppet, grabbed him eagerly, made him premier and president of the Axis-recognized Nanking government. For this crowning act of apostasy the Chinese erected in Chungking a life-size statue of Wang, naked and grovelling, for all to spit upon...
...Japanese were also ready with a new Nanking puppet: Chen Kung-po, 54, Columbia University alumnus, ex-president of the Nanking Legislative Yuan...