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Through their puppet, Wang Ching-wei, the Japanese still hope to make a separate peace with some group within the Chungking Government. "They hope to split China away from union with America and England, and, as they say, 'to return China into the bosom of East Asia.' They try to buy defeatists, capitulationists and appeasers, acting under the guise of promising the 'independence and sovereignty of China.' They seek indefatigably to sharpen China's inner discord and arouse civil...
...Chiang Kaishek. "For years a great part of Chiang's best troops, headed by the most experienced generals and officers, have been 'guarding' China from the 'Communists' . . . who are waging a continuous, active, partisan war against the greater portion of the combined Japanese and puppet Chinese troops...
...Radio Saigon is the most puzzling station heard in Chungking. Its puppet personnel seem unable to decide what side they are on-especially since the Second Front in Normandy. The voice of one announcer, Jacques Chateau, "reminds you of an accordion . . . full of mashed potatoes." Another specialty is a comedy team called Jack and Jane, who "are forever knocking themselves out laughing at their own material...
Edgar Bergen, the power behind Puppet Charlie McCarthy, was decorated by order of Sweden's King Gustav V, with the Order of Vasa, 1st Class, for furthering American-Scandinavian relations. He promptly ordered a miniature medal for his meal-ticket...
...Marcel Deat, slick Minister of Propaganda Philippe Henriot denounced Petain and Laval for straddling. Bull-like Jacques Doriot, powerful boss of the pro-Nazi Popular Party, bellowed that France must "make active contribution to this gigantic struggle." The Berlin radio hinted that Doriot might become No. 1. puppet: "A people's Government is ready to take over if the French Government does not do its duty...