Word: puppeteering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Chinese named Chou Fu-hai last week made himself the most important personage-if a straw man can ever be more than an effigy of importance-in the Japanese-controlled Nanking regime of Puppet Wang Ching-wei. He is Nanking's Minister of Finance. His importance was not due to his talents or virtues; it was due to the simple fact that the war in China, having reached a stalemate militarily, had become primarily an economic war. If the Nanking Government can pay for itself and for the Japanese Army of Occupation as well, Japan will have...
...drama Murder in the Cathedral, the Negro Swing Mikado, etc. But Hallie Flanagan is especially proud of the socio-esthetic achievement as a whole, of the fact that millions were given a wide gamut of drama from Euripides to O'Neill, as well as musical comedies, pageants, ballets, puppet shows, children's plays, foreign-language productions, radio programs. She gets a lot of what she feels into a poem about the Theatre's Florida activities. Excerpt...
Belgium was grim because the country had been looted of foodstuffs, because 50,000 workers had been deported to Germany, because there was no real leadership in the nation, with its Government in exile in London and King Leopold stead fastly refusing to become a puppet. When Jews in Antwerp were ordered to wear armbands a few weeks ago, masses of gentiles appeared on the streets with identical armbands...
...Japanese had the white inhabitants of Shanghai in check, they still did not have good control of the Chinese. Puppet President Wang Ching-wei's Central China Daily News serves as an organ of Japanese propaganda. In it last week-between the lines of a gambling-house advertisement-a Chinese compositor had set the words: "Down with the traitor Wang Ching...
...Nanking Administration Building, where Chiang Kai-shek and his colleagues used to hold state meetings, Puppet Wang sat alone at a long table. In walked General Abe, followed by 22 junior officers. Wang stood up. The General sat down. Wang sat down. The General indicated a document lying on the table. Wang signed it. General Abe signed it. Japan was at "peace" with China...