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...Goulart's pet themes was sweeping agrarian reform. The man of the masses obviously meant every word he said about redistributing the land -but mainly to himself. Federal and state investigators have just started adding up the totals. When Goulart fled, he was believed on the verge of completing the biggest land deal in Brazilian rural history - the acquisition of $1,385,000 worth of land in Mato Grosso state near the Bolivian border. What he already had latched onto, say the investigators, marked him as a wheeler-dealer without parallel...
Died. Nathaniel Peffer, 74, longtime (1938-58) Columbia University professor and author of many books on the Far East (China: The Collapse of a Civilization), a onetime Shanghai correspondent who by early 1948 concluded that the Chinese Communists were genuine Marxists and not merely "agrarian reformers," warned that only active U.S. intervention could save the Kuomintang, but still held out hope that the Chinese Reds would in the long run refuse to be merely "a tail to the Russian kite"; of a heart attack; in White Plains...
...Goulart's most explosive moves to date was to decree an "agrarian reform" program to take over idle farmland along federal highways, railroads and reservoirs. The decree was sheer demagoguery, since the government has long had legal power to take over these lands, but has always lacked the cash to compensate the owners. To the peasants, Tango's loudly touted decree is simply a hunting license to grab the land. The government-sponsored, Communist-bossed National Peasant Confederation has even assured Brazil's peasants that the land decree "is an instrument that the peasants...
...Mann's four points, they sin more by omission than commission. There is no mention in his speech of the struggle for economic reform and social justice to which the United States pledged itself at Punta del Este. The agrarian reform and changes in tax structure which are fundamental prerequisites of meaningful development in Latin America can scarcely be attained by a policy of protecting U.S. interests. Mann's declared policy aims represent, in fact, the abandonment of all the promising features of the Alliance for Progress, and a regression to the diplomacy of short-sighted pecuniary interest characteristic...
Choose Your Flag. Elected in 1957 to succeed a military junta, Villeda Morales made a start on agrarian reform, got $11.6 million in Alliance for Progress aid and used it to launch a modest development plan to educate his 1,950,000 people, build roads and attract new industry. Personally popular and staunchly antiCommunist, he kept Honduran far leftists at arm's length, helped labor clean out Red infiltrators. "I am asking you," he once told a labor rally, "to choose between Communism and democracy, between the blue and white flag of Honduras and the red flag of Russia...