Word: agrarianism
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...villain. Others will find in the book's 114 pages most of the materials necessary to an understanding of the Polish problem. Though the authors are concerned with the dispassionate investigation of history, they make one telling political point: the key to political control of Poland today is agrarian reform. This key is wholly in the hands of Poland's Moscow-dominated government...
Even among Balkan politicians, who are much sought after by direct-actionists, Dr. Georgi Dimitroff, 43-year-old ex-Secretary General of the Bulgarian Agrarian Party, seems to bear a charmed life. Four years ago he escaped German arrest by leaving his country in a load of oranges shipped out by British diplomats. Four months ago he escaped Russian arrest, this time by falling inside the opened door of the U.S. political representative in Sofia, Maynard B. Barnes (TIME, June 11). Last week, still in the reassuring company of Mr. Barnes, Dimitroff and his wife emplaned from the capital, with...
Demands & Promises. Promptly the opposition redoubled its activities. Dimitroff's onetime Agrarian Party colleague, General Nicola Petkoff, began to organize his own party, probably in cooperation with the opposition wings of three other parties (Radical, Democratic, Social Democratic). Opposition leaders demanded that the present election law be amended to conform with the Constitution (i.e., minimum voting age be raised from 19 to 21, minimum age for candidates from 23 to 30), insisted that the key Ministry of the Interior be transferred to a "neutral" incumbent...
Louise Bogan, Manhattan poet-critic (for the New Yorker), moved into the Library of Congress' chair of poetry (term : one year; duties: comfortably vague), succeeding Southern Agrarian Poet-Critic-Novelist Robert Penn Warren (Night Rider...
...second Chinese, just as we know American Communists are first Communists and second Americans. In the case of the Chinese Communists this is a reluctant reversal of the opinion I held some years ago. I, too, was taken in for a time by the talk of their being just agrarian reformers, just Chinese patriots struggling only for the freedom of China and for democracy. I am convinced now the primary allegiance of the Chinese Communists is to Russia, whether Russia wants it that way or not, and their purpose is to make Russia overwhelmingly the strongest power in Asia...