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...wing (he did not oppose the Suez invasion), he was picked last year to succeed Iain Macleod as Colonial Secretary, has quietly demolished some herculean roadblocks in the path of independence for African territories, notably in reaching agreement last month on a five-year plan to settle 70,000 landless natives on a million acres of Kenya's choice White Highland farmland...
...regards the President as the living symbol of the nation, and for Italy's paradoxical mood of economic prosperity and intellectual concern, the election of Segni was remarkably appropriate. A wealthy gentleman farmer from Sardinia,* Segni has given away 250 acres of his own rich olive groves to landless peasants; in 1950, as Agriculture Minister, he sponsored a far-reaching system of national land reform. Politically, Segni is a moderate conservative who is not likely to stand in the way of reforms planned under Fanfani's opening to the left...
...India-trained B. P. Koirala, who advocated the same vaguely socialistic ideas that animate India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Late in 1960, when Koirala pushed through legislation subjecting landlords to a property tax and expropriating large estates for the benefit of Nepal's millions of landless peasants, King Mahendra abruptly dissolved Parliament, jailed Koirala and as many of his Cabinet ministers as the inept Nepali police could lay hands on. After suppressing the nation's 15 political parties, the King has ruled through an appointed six-man Cabinet headed by brash young Foreign and Home Minister...
...best in its superb relief maps. In addition, each large area of the planet is shown, by means of color photos of a specially built globe, as it would look from a point several hundred miles out in space. The technique gives, for instance, a sense of the almost landless expanse of the Pacific with a vividness that could be duplicated only by taking an ocean voyage or reading Conrad. Throughout the book, geology is used to explain geography. Below the map for Florida, for example, is a diagram demonstrating the formation of a barrier beach. For Maine, the diagram...
Diem's first 15 months were his finest. He survived against all odds. He split up large landholdings and sold them off to landless farmers; he expanded rice production and encouraged light industry...