Word: puppetize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jumped to the conclusion that Great Britain may soon recognize Japan's puppet Empire of Manchukuo when London's Conservative Press received with acclaim last week a" rabidly pro-Manchukuo report of 12,000 words turned in by the British trade mission to Manchukuo under Wool Tycoon Lord Barnby. Reputedly the Barnby commissioners bagged $40,000,000 worth of Japanese orders for steel alone. Cried the Tory Morning Post: "Manchukuo is a permanent fact to which the world must accommodate itself, whether it likes it or not. No useful purpose is to be served by preserving the diplomatic...
Busy preserving this fiction last week were a U. S. and a British consul. In Hsinking, raw boomtown capital of the puppet Empire, they called upon Manchukuoan officials presumably to protest against Manchukuo's confiscatory oil monopoly (TIME, Nov. 5), treated them as persons, not as officials of unrecognized Manchukuo...
...carry out this state butchery, Russia's Puppet President Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was obliged by the Dictator to cancel with a stroke of the pen most of the "progress" ostentatiously made when the Gay-pay-oo was transformed into the Commissariat of Interior under its Gay-pay-oo chief, Comrade Genrikh Grigorevich Yagoda (TIME, July 23). Last week Stalin was said to be so vexed with Yagoda that he had suspended him as Commissar of Interior. The decree of President Kalinin deprived persons arrested not only of any right to be defended by a lawyer but also of the right...
...Hsinking, fast-booming capital of Japan's puppet Empire of Manchukuo, the official Manchukuo News Agency dispatched last week this hot wire concerning hollow-eyed Emperor Kang...
...Next day the Foreign Office admitted that Mr. Hirota recently received from Mr. Grew and British Ambassador Sir Robert Clive the English Speaking Powers' third series of vigorous protests against the new oil monopoly laws of Japan's puppet state Manchukuo (TIME, Nov. 5). For the third time cocky Mr. Hirota's still cockier spokesman, famed Eiji Amau snapped: "We cannot admit any contention which ignores the sovereign independence of Manchukuo...