Word: landless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After walking more than 700 miles, Bhave has persuaded the deshmukhs to give him 5,000 acres which he is redistributing among the landless. Indian Congress leaders are helping Bhave. The Hyderabad government recently enacted a law by which deshmukhs owning more than 750 acres must sell part of their land to tenants at a government-fixed price...
...gaudy melodrama, written by six anonymous authors, of whom Mao may be one. It portrays the suffering of Heroine Hsi-erh, a landless farmer's daughter, who is tortured by the landlord's mother, raped by the landlord's son, etc., etc. Her ordeal turns her hair prematurely white. The Red army finally rescues her and punishes the wicked landlord family...
...little statesman who, in 1946, had stood up at Lake Success and successfully demanded that the Russians clear out of the northern Iranian province of Azerbaijan. Until this week, Ala was in charge of a generous and sense-making program of parceling out land, owned by the Shah, to landless peasants. Parliamentary confirmation of Hussein Ala was promptly voted...
Since he took office last September, 41-year-old Secretary of Defense Ramon Magsaysay has realized that pacifying Luzon's 15,000 Communist Huk rebels is more than a military problem. The Huk rank & file-and most Huk sympathizers-are poor, landless peasants, led into rebellion by Communist promises of Utopia. Magsaysay has come to believe that a little government help and a few acres of land would transform Huk guerrillas into peaceful citizens...
...playground] is only a tiny drop in the bucket of things that are needed by so many people . . . throughout the Philippines. And it is need . . . that is causing discontent within these islands and proving a fertile breeding ground for Communist agitators. For what does Communism promise a hungry, landless, debt-ridden, discontented person? Why, a full stomach, some hectares of land, cancellation of what he owes-and a better way of life. Is it any wonder that people who are without hope listen to the sound of these Pied Pipers...