Word: agrarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon as the task of liberation permits, there must be free elections. I do not doubt that Italians will vote for a progressive republic." Carlo Sforza had an old man's vision: "When the time comes, there must first be agrarian reform, an end of landless peasants and great estates. The economy of Italy might well be patterned after that of prewar Czecho-Slovakia. A thriving Catholic nation of small landowners and busy workers is the best bulwark against communism...
Seated for a year in the Library of Congress' chair of poetry (vacant since 1941) was Southern Agrarian Poet-Critic-Historian (Ode to the Confederate Dead) Allen John Orley Tate. His duties: the care and feeding of the poetry collection...
...zaro Cárdenas returned to the Government as Minister of National Defense when Mexico entered the war. His revolutionary, agrarian reforms have been modified under Avila Camacho, but in the main they survive. Busy with war work, Cárdenas maintains his mystical quiet, seems unperturbed when his leftist supporters scream that some of his pet projects have been butchered...
Quite a few things have happened, however, since the infallible Founders brought forth the perfect Constitution. They created a document that became a marvelous instrument for a Jeffersonian agrarian democracy, but that lost its quality as a testament under the stress of an expanding society. The Industrial Revolution necessitated a flexible interpretation of our political structure, a fact that the American public began to realize after prosperity remained around the corner. Individual initiative is possible only if individual despair is forestalled. And freedom for the individual to deal as an "equal" with a billion-dollar corporation has become an assininity...
...means of opposing a Russian sphere of influence would be a Catholic Federation, pivoted on a Catholic Austria-Hungary, supported by Danubian agrarian parties and possibly involving exiled Otto Habsburg, who apparently has potent friends in high places. Poland would be a northern anchor, Italy the southern anchor of such a federation. But, should restoration of the Habsburgs meet with too great resistance from socialist Freemason Czechs and pro-Russian Yugoslavs, an Eastern European Catholic Federation might be contrived, binding Catholic groups together in a Balkan cordon sanitaire from Poland to the Mediterranean...