Word: agrarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like thousands of his fellow citizens, Editor Gould had fallen for the line that China's Communists were really "agrarian democrats" without binding ties to Moscow. Only last month he voiced a tentative welcome to Mao Tse-tung's Communist Liberation Army as it took over Shanghai. Wrote Gould in his breezy Post: "Shanghai is essentially non-political . . . What it hopes is that a true 'liberation' has now come." It hadn't. Gould found the city's new bosses as hostile to a free press as any other Communists would...
...ends. De Gasperi has countered with the slogan, "We must have land reform, but first we must develop our land." Last summer ECAgriculturists revived the old Fascist program of land reclamation (as it was carried out in the Pontine Marshes) as a sensible way to more productivity and less agrarian discontent. With U.S. prodding and financial help, three districts are being reclaimed; eventually they will account for one-third of the nation's arable land, provide cheap plots for the landless...
...easier for people to be good." His message was simple and uncompromising: capitalism, with its foundations in usury and its dehumanizing of man by machines, is just as bad for mankind as socialism with its depersonalizing state. Workers, he thought, should leave the factories and work the land in agrarian communities retaining the barest minimum of private property. Participation in modern war he held to be always wrong-all Christians should be pacifists. And the best state of all for a Christian, said Peter Maurin, is voluntary poverty...
Meanwhile, the Communists have successfully sold themselves as the true reformers, the genuine nationalists, the fighters against imperialism. Their agrarian program, their well-behaved armies, and their recent firing on British warships support these claims...
...with the Communists' program. Lacking personnel of their own, they have had to retain old officials and management. They have also restricted workers' demands to keep production from collapsing altogether. Feeding huge cities, such as Shanghai, without the rice shipments supplied by the U. S. may well upset the agrarian program, until now the Reds' best advertisement...