Word: agrarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists are the government of China. Starting from that fact, we have no moral or pragmatic basis for not recognizing them. Mao-tze Tung's men are neither the innocent agrarian reformers that some of their supporters would make them nor as much a tool of Moscow as the conservative press claims. Their leaders are Moscow-trained, but there are four factors which make their ties to Russia looser than those of the eastern European "satellites...
...there was garrulous Ambassador Pat Hurley reporting to Washington:"The Communists are not in fact Communists; they are striving for democratic principles." (That was a judgment made in wartime. But Hurley soon changed his mind, fought hard and successfully against State Department officials who wanted to arm the Communist "agrarian democrats...
...Chinese leader cleared up some points that have been debated in the West. For the bemused "liberals" who have protested that the Chinese Communists were mere harmless "agrarian democrats," Mao had news. He said his regime was and for the immediate future would continue to be a "dictatorship." For those who have insisted that the Chinese Reds got no help from Russia, Mao (who should know) said that the victory of the Red revolution in China would have been impossible without the aid of the U.S.S.R. He said that the "masses" in many countries, including the U.S., had relieved reactionary...
Pistol Packer. Last week Gould got his first real taste of the agrarian democrats' medicine-Chinese Communist staffers locked him in his office until midnight after he rejected their wage demands. Next day, when he wrote a story about the row, the workers refused to print the Post unless he dropped his "distorted" account and stopped "helping the bandit Chiang resist the People's Revolution." That convinced Gould that he could "no longer run an American newspaper in the American tradition," and he suspended the Post indefinitely...
...daily column, Cope mixes his propaganda for the agrarian revolution with homely philosophy, simple humor, useful information and unabashed corn. Though most of his columns plow a straight furrow through common farm problems, he also roams as far afield as barbershop quartets and alcoholism. Cope's most celebrated column had nothing to do with farming. It was a sentimental epitaph for his dead Scottie, Mr. Burns...