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...Tammany Hall's Boss De Sapio. All are of the same ilk and bilk. When Truman complains, "We have lost heavily among the millions of uncommitted people in Asia," he seems to have forgotten under whose administration it was that the Chinese Commies were called "merely agrarian reformers." There are thousands of American casualties of Korea who weren't nearly so happy on "Harry's Night...
...corn a year), it tempts them with homesteads at low prices. Recognizing also the popular demand for land redistribution, it provides for the well-compensated expropriation of idle parts of big estates and their division among the landless. The new plan offers technical assistance, credit, housing and "fundamental agrarian education" aimed at turning the withdrawn Indians into cash-crop farmers and cash-spending consumers. In contrast to the Arbenz regime's land reform decree, which retained a lien on government-issued land (to keep beneficiaries voting the right way), the new law gives outright possession. To prevent estate owners...
Lawyer Kekkonen, city-bred boss of Finland's Agrarian Party, squeaked in for his six-year term after the most protracted balloting in the republic's 38-year history. His final 151-149 victory came only after the Communists threw him their 56 votes. Though all Finns agree that they have to stay on good terms with their powerful neighbors, Kekkonen's frank campaign for a be-sweet-to-the-Russians policy galled the stubbornly independent souls of many Finns. Kekkonen maintained that a policy of appeasement won Porkkala back, and might yet persuade the Russians...
...What civilized person could ever imagine those nice Americans devising such a fiendish scheme as the Morgenthau plan . . ." Faces dimmed. ". . . to reduce Germany to an agrarian country? Such childish nonsensel! Ach ja, Hitler did lose the war for us, but did we not suffer enough? I am no Nazi . . ." Nodding heads in the group indicated that no one was, or indeed ever had been, a Nazi. ". . . but trying to force your Democracy on us like an insect spray, ja it was too silly...
...result, said GATT, is that the people of predominantly agrarian countries pay high prices for shoddy manufactures produced in their own factories, while the people of industrial nations are forced to buy expensive home-grown food...