Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farm plots, belonging to the Japanese and large land-holders, had been redistributed among more than 550,000 former tenants on 15 year mortgages. Unlike the communist program in the North, the peasants were given titles of ownership immediately. The success of these reforms proved a strong bulwark against communism in rural areas and clearly demonstrated that honest and intelligent administration is possible in Korea. Now that the farm administration has been placed in the hands of Syngman Rhee's U.S.-approved government, however, corruption and waste threaten to obliterate the gains made by the occupation authorities...
...stands much as it did in China. Only through U. S. support can the rotten government sustain its control against the communist threat from the North. U. S. authorities realize that they have again backed themselves into a corner, for at the moment there remains but one alternative, communism...
Chinese Communists are not winning because of communism but because they are taking advantage of a social change he added. I don't think we can save the status quo by supporting Chiang's government. America must develop a positive policy toward China and compete with communism...
...must distinguish, he emphasized between communism and social change. "There is no point in being against progress." He urged that America compete with Russia by sending agricultural industrial and cultural missions to all Asia...
Mather said that there is at present a bill submitted to the Massachusetts legislature which would restrain colleges from teaching about "atheistic communism." But there is a difference, Mather pointed out, between teaching certain doctrines, so that they may be compared with others, and advocating them. "In the market place of opinion," Mather said, "democracy will always win providing there is freedom of discussion...