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...expanded program of technical assistance and world development would certainly be more effective than military pacts. For efforts to stop Communism in Asia by rifles or H-bombs overlook the pride, nationalism, and hunger of most free Asians. Local landlords are much more hated by landless peasants than are distant totalitarian tyrants; bread and rice taste better than gunpowder. Present Soviet technical assistance also makes an expanded U.S. program necessary. The Soviet Union is giving China more than seven times the amount of money the U.S. now devotes to India, and free Asia looks with longing eyes at the rapid...
...most serious problems, not met by the Five Year Plan, is land inequality. Everywhere, the land question is primary, for it is the true source of village wealth and life. It is estimated that in one district, for example, 75 percent of the people are landless, and three percent own half the irrigated land. Land reform is officially under the control of the various State governments, unlike Community Development, which is administered from New Delhi...
...soon as Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas gained power, he suspended the sweeping land-reform program under which the old regime expropriated a fifth (1,600,000 acres) of Guatemala's arable land and handed it over to 83,275 landless peasants. Last week the new President laid down a stopgap program of his own for dealing with the most explosive of Guatemala's problems. Drawn up by Jorge Skinner Klee, 32, a lawyer who took postgraduate work (in anthropology) at Northwestern, the President's decree appears to accept land reform in Guatemala as a necessity, and undertakes...
...peasants lacks stability," said a recent Communist cadre report, "and their understanding of the new production relations is obscure." Item: of the 20,440 Chinese captured by the U.N. in Korea, a devastating 14,209 refused to go home. The first wave of enthusiasm among China's landless millions, among many intellectuals and young Chinese, has waned severely. Land reform became not a matter of justice, but a brutal stamping out of landlords and recalcitrants, a mass injustice in which all had to participate and to share the complicity. Even inside the party there is loyalty trouble. Item...
...brutal assault," cried Premier Jawaharlal Nehru, "brings out forcibly the degradation of those who claim to serve religion, and want to make it a vested interest of their own." President Rajendra Prasad, who gave up his Bihar estates to Bhave's campaign to collect land for his landless ones (TIME, May 11), sent a message of shame and regret. The opposition Socialist Party bitterly criticized Bihar's Congress-dominated government for not protecting a man revered by millions of Indians as a saint...