Word: butting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Francesco Mauri at nearby Cutro: "This land will be ours as soon as it is cleared, or we will lie dead upon it. They may kill us, but we won't leave the land."
The Rape of the Land. This deep feeling for the soil is shared by many Italian landowners who work their land themselves, or treat their tenants as fellow owners. But under Italy's widespread system of absentee ownership, too many masters of the land rent it out for a...
"Corradi doesn't despise the company of poor peasants. In fact, he is always around. I planted a fig tree here one day. I have held this land for 15 years, and never a tree on it. I want a tree. But Corradi rushed up shouting, 'Who planted...
Wealthy Francesco Cosentino, in his armchair in Crotone, agreed with his tenant. "We follow a system which amounts to rape of the land. We are no careful husbandmen-not husbands but rapists."
Recently, De Gasperi himself went to Calabria to talk to the peasants. He told them that, until the situation was cleared up by law, they might keep the land they had seized. He promised reform. Said he: "... I am no revolutionary, but I cry woe betide landowners who don'...