Word: agrarian
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...this mean that Wisconsin voters had turned from the old faithful Progressive mixture-agrarian reform and a Midwestern suspicion of other nations? Progressives had explanations ready: for the first time the primary had been held in August, when farmers are busy; Progressives traditionally show poorly in primaries ; the Party's candidates were mostly unknowns; there had been no significant differences in issues (the leading Republican, Democrat and Progressive candidates all campaigned for international cooperation...
...Chief of the Army General Staff, the Führer chose a different sort of man. He was neither an all-out Nazi nor an old-line Prussian officer, but an adroit military technician, with links to both camps. He was Colonel General Heinz Guderian (rhymes with agrarian), the Wehrmacht's No. 1 tank general, the kind of officer (Hitler hoped) who would not break, no matter how sure was defeat, how dismal the amateur attempts of the Party high command to stave...
...Poland must become a "parliamentary democracy." Its base must be the small farm family. It must undertake a sweeping agrarian reform. Large estates must be cut down to a maximum of 247 acres. Every peasant must farm his own land. Thus Poland would scrap a semifeudal land economy...
...Czech President Benes flies to Moscow to sign a 20-year alliance, he may provide real evidence that a Danube Federation is in the making. In such a body, a postwar, pro-Soviet Czecho-Slovakia would have the No. i position. Industrial Austria and Czecho-Slovakia might neatly complement agrarian Hungary, perhaps offer a haven for Rumania and for Croatia & Slovenia if prewar Yugoslavia should not revive. The rest of Southeastern Europe-Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Albania-might be encouraged to form a parallel Balkan Federation...
...least a pagan vision-a contradiction of the materialistic view: it is the insight into a harmony with nature which must be re-established if the truly Christian imagination is to be recovered by Christians. What he is trying to convey is ... not a program of agrarian reform, but a point of view unintelligible to the industrialized mind." And profoundly vitalizing that point of view are Kipling's strange nerves of prophecy and mysticism...