Word: agrarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were general parliamentary elections throughout Czechoslovakia last week, and to the acute distaste of most of Prague, Führer Henlein's party topped every other in the country with 1,294,000 votes against the Agrarian's second highest: 1,176,000. Because of the country's voting system, the Czech Agrarian party still will have the largest number of seats in parliament. Prague observers found democracy in Czechoslovakia still in no immediate danger, but it was a close call, demanded immediate rebuilding of political fences...
Long-suffering Andrew Cairns, resident secretary in London of the International Wheat Advisory Commission created by the World Wheat Conference of 21 agrarian nations including the U. S. (TIME, July 3 et. seq.), sent out invitations last week for a super-gloomy meeting...
...Communist nightmares. He feared that Finland might turn Red any day. The best he could do was to force young Finland to destroy all the great Russian forts on the Aland Islands. Thus, the Alands were no help to him but neither were they a menace. Since then, however, agrarian Finland has proved its right to Gustaf's confidence by showing itself thoroughly antiCommunist. Finland was no threat last week but what of emboldened Soviet Russia? The form Gustaf's fear took was that Russia may some day seize the unfortified Aland Islands, thus irreparably separating Sweden...
...Carolina, "the two protagonists in our tragedy," was already latent. For the "rope of sand" that held the 13 colonies together was substituted a Constitutional chain of iron, which had to be tempered in blood before it was proved indissoluble. Historian Adams shows convincingly the inevitable drawing apart of agrarian South from industrial North, an incompatibility be coming more & more coherent. Just before the Civil War Northerners were speaking hotly of South Carolina as "that bullying State ... let the damned little thing go." Southern journalists were spiritedly responding: "Not a breeze that blows from the Northern hills but bears upon...
...result of the military defeat, King Fordinand was forced to abdiento, since the alliance with the Central Powers had been principally his undertaking. Under his son and successor, Boris, the Agrarian party rose to power. By 1920, Stambolisky succeeded in establishing a virtual dictatorship in his party, and in the next three years managed to alienate a number of important groups in the state. Since he was chiefly interested in the peasant proprietors, he became increasingly intolerant and oppressive of other classes...