Word: expropriationism
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Diplomats in London and Washington wondered out loud whether Naguib in his enthusiasm was pushing too far and too fast. Summary expropriation of land, for example, might dislocate the country's agriculture, cause food shortages. Strongman Naguib seemed prepared to take that risk.
Jones is an old hand at rescue work in the sort of expropriation trouble afflicting Britain's giant Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. When the Mexican government expropriated U.S. oil properties in 1938, Cities Service's holdings, all still unexplored, were grabbed along with the rest. But in 1948...
Her chance came last year with the expropriation of British oil properties in Iran. Sadika helped set up the National Iranian Development Corp., which was to sell Iran's nationalized oil abroad, and became its vice president. Late this spring an Italian operator took a shipment of Iranian oil...
Spain has been urging the Bonn government to appoint a German ambassador to Spain to act as the official representative of these men, as well as some 10,000 other Germans in Spain. For two years, Spain has had a diplomatic representative at Bonn. Postwar Germany has not forgiven Franco...
The new program promises to tear the social and economic fabric of the country as surely as did Mexico's revolutionary land reforms. Even before the bill was passed passions blazed in capital and countryside. Near the eastern frontier, rabble-rousing organizers of the National Peasants Union announced lists...