Word: agrarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists make their own laws, collect their own taxes, issue their own paper money. They are more agrarian reformers than revolutionaries but they are well disciplined. They have developed small cannons out of bored elms. For armament they use captured Japanese guns and when they haven't guns they use spears and clubs. The Soviets send in no aid to them...
...Government was Colonel General Béla Miklos de Dalnok, 56, former commander of the Hungarian First Army who went over to the Russians with his staff last October after Regent Nicholas Horthy's ill-fated try for an armistice. Among his ministers: an author and student of agrarian reform; a history professor jailed by Horthy for "subversive activities" ; a geology professor and cousin of Count Paul Teleki, ex-Premier who committed suicide in April 1941. Notably absent was Hungary's top Communist, Matyas Rakosi, sixtyish, stout ex-commissar in the Communist Government...
...confiscations amounted to the most important agrarian revolution in Europe since Russia liquidated the kulaks† as a class. On the surface it seemed designed to break up a land economy built around baronial estates, substitute an economy of small farms-firmest foundation of the political Middle Way. But one question remained to be answered: why was the Moscow-sponsored Lublin government carrying out a small-farm land policy which Moscow (after allowing peasants to carve up the big estates in 1917) declared to be wasteful and inefficient when it began to collectivize the peasants...
...Decreed an agrarian reform which amounted to a government-sponsored social revolution. Next week the Lublin government will confiscate without compensation all farms of more than 250 acres, redistribute them in twelve-and-a-half-acre lots to poor and landless peasants...
...includes shots of native police wielding their cudgels on a riotous city mob. But it also looks at schools, hospitals, factories and irrigation projects, asserts that India has benefited from British rule and may gradually win full Dominion status. Further glimpses of air-minded Canada, industrially ambitious Australia, contentedly agrarian New Zealand, rich, up-&-coming South Africa, lead M.O.T. to conclude that old loyalties will be maintained (along with new ones to the U.S.), old grievances will be resolved, the British Empire will prosper and endure...