Word: agrarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democracy. What kind of master will Mao be to China? For years, the Communists (aided by many U.S. correspondents) have faithfully fostered the story that Mao and his Chinese are just "agrarian reformers." The story went around Washington that, during a Moscow conference, Molotov once cracked to an American: "The Chinese Communists are not Communists. They are oleomargarine. They are imitation Communists...
...draw an in exact parallel with Czechoslovakia. Although the extent of the tie between the Chinese Communists and Moscow is not clear, it is obvious that their form of communism is radically different from the Russian variety. The Chinese brand is based not on an urban but on an agrarian economy. Industrial backwardness prevents the quick establishment of a police state. Moreover, since the Communists must use the same bureaucracy to carry out its administration, they must modify their demands to make them acceptable to this group...
Wars, dynasties and governments come and go, but China's ancient agrarian moon festival goes on forever. Along the paddy walls of the countryside and through teeming lanes of towns, rich & poor alike gathered last week for family reunions and celebrations...
...Deal brain-truster, he was one of the authors of the ill-famed Morgenthau Plan, which would have reduced Germany to an agrarian country. He represented the U.S. at Bretton Woods, birthplace of the World Bank. Over a year ago he had left his last Government post, as U.S. executive director of the International Monetary Fund, and become a Manhattan fiscal consultant...
...Deck Hand. Like others, Stilwell fell for the "liberal" line that the Chinese Communists were really agrarian reformers. In his diary Stilwell calls them "the so-called Communists...