Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fanfani's program is militant Christianity-militant in the direction of reforms, especially land reform, aimed at undercutting the Communists. This appeals to younger party members, and younger delegates seemed to predominate at Naples. They were critical: they asked for facts and figures instead of rhetoric...
...dispersed so quickly and so unnoticeably." Parley in the Village. The erosion was almost too far advanced even for Ngo Dinh Diem, the firm-minded new anti-Communist Prime Minister of Viet Nam (TIME, June 28). Diem arrived in Saigon from Paris last week promising independence, land reform and war against corruption-measures that a few months ago might have changed the course...
Doctrinaire to the end, he charged that the United Fruit Co. of Boston (which lost 400,000 acres of land to Arbenz' agrarian reform program) had "tried to destroy our country" under the pretext of attacking Communism. He referred sorrowfully to the "overwhelming and tremendous means at the command of Guatemala's enemies." and signed...
Diaz followed, crediting Arbenz with doing "what he thought was his duty," and promising to preserve the social reforms of his regime. Like Arbenz and Rebel Castillo Armas, Diaz is a professional officer; the three were schoolmates at Guatemala's military academy. He is 40, popular in the army and among the people, less provincial than the narrow, little-traveled Arbenz. Last year he publicly declared: "There will be no Communists in the officers' corps while I am in command." He supported Arbenz from duty and in the belief that Arbenz' land reform was good; there...
...white dagger and cross of the "Liberation Movement." They fingered black burp guns and seemed to have plenty of ammunition. The officers were upper-crust Guatemalan exiles-lawyers, engineers, coffee planters driven out for their politics or stripped of some of their land under Arbenz' Communist-administered agrarian reform program. Castillo Armas himself turned out to be a slender, sallow, diffident man in a checked shirt and leather jacket, with a .45 automatic jammed into the belt of his khaki pants...