Word: agrarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Work Is Finished." What were Togliatti's motives, and what did he achieve? The paramount fact was that the Communists' support of the Vatican coincided, with jeweled precision, with the new Italian Communist strategy of shifting attention and activities from the industrial north, traditionally anticlerical, to the agrarian south. In recent weeks the Communists' best agents and organizers have been moved down from Milan and Turin (where, said a Communist editor in conversation last week, "our work is already finished"), to concentrate on the peasants. Togliatti's tactic had undercut the Christian Democratic Party...
...last handouts from Yenan put this Red faith confidently: "The more Chiang concentrates his forces . . . the more he will expose himself." Another Yenan handout of the penultimate period contained a puzzle for those who still think that Chinese Communists are merely agrarian reformers without connection with Communist movements elsewhere. Yenan based its faith in the future on "factors of decisive significance" in the outside world. These included an inevitable "American crisis" and "victories of the Soviet Union in economic construction and foreign policy...
...Communists that alternative? They have redivided the land and instituted basic economic changes and have maintained a correct aloofness toward their Soviet God-fathers. Yet the label of "agrarian liberalism," as applied by the authors, cannot quell fears of democrats who have watched police states entrench themselves in the vacuum left by moderates who are terrified by change. Theodore White and Miss Jacoby feel that American policy has more to offer than an endorsement of a social structure that the great mass of Chinese rejects. By pressuring the Nanking government into the widest possible program of reform, the State Department...
Even more to blame, he implied, were "the dyed-in-the-wool Communists." The General bluntly refuted the theory, often advanced by hopeful U.S. leftists, that China's Communists are simply agrarian reformists. Said he: "The Communists frankly state that they are Marxists and intend to work toward establishing a communistic form of government in China, though first advancing through the medium of a democratic form of government of the American or British type...
Died. Lynn Joseph Frazier, 72, onetime front man for North Dakota's Non-Partisan League of agrarian radicals, North Dakota governor (1916-21), three-time U.S. Senator (1922-40), co-author of the Frazier-Lemke Bills for farm relief; after long illness; in Maryland...