Word: agrarian
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...Communists and agrarian reformers who run Guatemala's government grabbed 233,973 acres of the United Fruit Co.'s best banana reserve lands at Tiquisate last year, and blandly offered the company $594,572 in 25-year government bonds as payment. The company, which values the land at $15,854,849, cried "confiscation," and asked the U.S. Government for help...
...fruits of the Communists' fertilizing friendship, Arbenz cited his. program of agrarian reform, "progress in reducing our dependence on foreign companies," happily shrinking foreign investments, a new "freedom in international policy" and "to top it all," the formation of a Communist Party, organized since his inaugural three years ago. Standing shoulder to shoulder with his Marxist comrades, the President then said what they presumably wanted him to say about the conference in Caracas. "It is entirely up to Guatemala to decide what form of democracy she must have . . . The real issue at the Inter American Conference should...
...China's reaction to this "spontaneous capitalism" was more socialization, more coercion. Peking radio announced last week that the first, far-famed "agrarian reform," which theoretically gave small plots to poor peasants to own and work for themselves, was now proving "unstable . . . weak . ... unable to weather natural calamities." Instead, the peasants' "individual economy" will be transformed along Russian lines: 35,800 collective farms will be set up before this year's harvest...
...problem of separate but equal education for races. Under the recently passed Bantu Education Act, natives will get education so unequal it is almost primitive. The Act will place natives in segregated schools run by the Native Affairs Ministry, whose avowed purpose is to teach only the "agrarian arts": soil care, cattle herding, and health. Somewhat more important is the implicit aim of teaching the native to accept his role as an inferior creature...
...Diet. His Cabinet is the most conservative since World War II. But it is only a caretaker government until the next election, probably in March. Tuomioja's real significance is that he plans to run the country without the help of ex-Premier Urho Kekkonen, the able, unpopular Agrarian who has bossed every Finnish cabinet since...