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...explained what lay behind the army's latest coup. "Speed," he said, "was one of the objectives of our movement." The army was exasperated by Aly Maher's slowcoach approach to the key issue of the whole cleanup movement: land reform. Instead of getting started on the breakup of large estates, Maher's Cabinet had hemmed & hawed, appointed one committee after another to "study" the question. Prices were still skyhigh, favoritism was still common in government promotion lists, and Wafdist politicians plotted to overthrow the new regime...
...work. Shortly after 2:30 that morning, Cairo editors got a statement, bearing Naguib's signature, that was as sharp and pointed as Aly's had been rambling and evasive. Naguib, speaking for the army, called for elections in February, measures to encourage industrialization, the breakup of large estates and distribution of land to the peasantry. He even rapped Aly's knuckles for taxing the poor man's tobacco...
...went to Europe to study at the University of Louvain, Belgium. To learn French, they first went to a small resort town where no one spoke any English. Soon afterwards, in a Paris boardinghouse, Sheen met a Frenchwoman who lived on the floor above. In deep distress over the breakup of her home, she told Sheen she was about to commit suicide. Sheen begged her to wait just nine days. She agreed, and for eight evenings Sheen sat with her, talking religion. His French was still so halting that he kept a dictionary open before him. On the ninth...
...Washington and London, China experts thought Hong Kong was going too far in talking of a possible breakup of the Chinese Communist regime. But Red China, they believed, is plainly heading into critical stress & strain...
...reform, introduced last week at ECOSOC, threatened the peace, and he denounced MacArthur's land reform in Japan. ECOSOC nevertheless overwhelmingly adopted the U.S. program, which will be offered as guide and model to underdeveloped nations. Its gist: 1) as many medium, family-sized holdings as possible; 2) breakup of too large or amalgamation of too small holdings, not to fit doctrinaire slogans but to insure maximum efficient production...