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...land reform crusade. His crusade which began with remarkable success in Communist-terrorized Telingana province (TIME, June 4), now promises to sweep through India. Bhave's target: the redistribution of 50 million acres-one-sixth of the cultivated land-among India's millions of landless peasants. His argument: "In India the ideal of Ahimsa (nonviolence) has deeply influenced people's minds. We can successfully bring about peaceful social revolution by gentle persuasion. If we adopt violent means as has been done in China and Russia the whole world will face calamity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Fifth Son | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...soft words won him 25,000 acres from 3,000 donors, mostly small landowners having less than five acres. One aged woman, after hearing Bhave, gave him half of her two-acre plot. Another gave him her entire 500-acre estate. The land is distributed to the landless on the basis of one acre for each member of the family. Bhave asks cash donors to buy land for him, present him with a pair of bullocks or bear the expense of digging a well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Fifth Son | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Communism v. Gandhi's Son | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Terror's Progress | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ice Cream Every Day | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

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