Word: agrarians
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...compared with 74? on some private farms and a guaranteed minimum of $1.36 on the plantations of the United Fruit Co., which government spellbinders frequently hold up to the workers as a capitalist ogre. In their ramshackle huts government hands are as ill-housed as any agrarian workers in Guatemala...
...proposed certain basic changes in educational curricula which would stress vocational training, in order to erect "a system based on the agrarian nature of the country and the needs of its people...
...international problem confronting our nation, and for every casualty we have suffered in Korea." Democrat Brien McMahon of Connecticut was lying in wait for him with quotes from Hurley's days as Roosevelt's Ambassador to China, when he was sure that the Chinese Communists were mere agrarian reformers, not tied to Moscow. (Example: "The only difference between Chinese Communists and Oklahoma Republicans is that the Oklahoma Republicans aren't armed.") Hurley replied hotly that he had done and said some things "of which I am not proud," but "I served President Roosevelt during the war . . . just...
Marxists or Reformers. Did he ever think the Chinese Communists were mere agrarian reformers...
...Agrarian Reformers. The most controversial issue in the China story is still the nature of China's Nationalist Government. Author Utley does not try to whitewash the Chiang Kai-shek regime. But she reviews Chiang's crushing postwar problems: the revival of a national economy beaten down by eight years of war against Japan. "The picture, drawn by popular journalists and authors, of a reactionary Kuomintang preserving a 'feudal' social organization," she concludes, "was in fact entirely misleading...