Word: feudally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does not try to whitewash the Chiang Kai-shek regime. But she reviews Chiang's crushing postwar problems: the revival of a national economy beaten down by eight years of war against Japan. "The picture, drawn by popular journalists and authors, of a reactionary Kuomintang preserving a 'feudal' social organization," she concludes, "was in fact entirely misleading...
Continuing Dialogue. Under the 1912 Treaty of Fez, Morocco is a French protectorate. French administrators rule through local pashas and caids. This system was founded on Moslem feudal tradition by France's famous Marshal Louis Lyautey. It works, but it makes no provision for ultimate Arab self-government...
...Intrigue Becomes the Pattern." Yet all this is only a drop of progress in a bucket of despair. The fields and villages of Iran are owned by several hundred feudal families who take from two-fifths to four-fifths of what the peasants grow. Under those terms, the peasant is neither able nor eager to improve the land or h's farming methods...
...power. While Nehru made speeches and handled India's foreign relations, Patel shaped much of the nation's domestic policy. As Home Minister, he used his police to suppress Communist terrorism and to "discipline" troublesome labor unions. As States Minister, he brought India's 550-odd feudal princelings to heel. (In one whirlwind 96-hour tour he pressured two dozen princes into surrendering their political powers, thus added 8,000,000 people and 56,000 square miles to the Dominion of India.) Together with his many friends among India's industrialists, he worked successfully to modify...
Then Henry Head came to the island. Henry was a bustling, 5 ft. 6 in. insurance salesman from nearby Guernsey. Three years ago he married a Sark woman of property. In feudal Sark, her properties and duties automatically became his, and Henry found himself a member of Sark's parliament. At first he refused to take his seat. "Sark," he said churlishly, "has done without me for 500 years. It can do without me now." Then, finding himself stuck with the job, he plunged deep into Sarkese law. He soon discovered among other things that the very parliament...