Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Justice Douglas, is "relying on guns and dollars rather than ideas . . . Out there you never hear the U.S. voice raised in defense of the little guy . . . What Asia needs is sympathy, understanding, an attitude of cooperation in the things they are trying to do."Douglas spoke glowingly about "land reform,"a magic phrase to liberals and leftists. Douglas was dissatisfied with what the U.S. is doing about land reform: "MacArthur's [land reform] program made no impression at all in Asia, outside of Japan...
That opinion was echoed by a source which the Justice could scarcely approve of. In Geneva, before the U.N. Economic and Social Council, Communist Poland's Juliusz Katz-Suchy also accused the U.S. of relying on guns and dollars. He charged that a new U.S. program for land reform, introduced last week at ECOSOC, threatened the peace, and he denounced MacArthur's land reform in Japan. ECOSOC nevertheless overwhelmingly adopted the U.S. program, which will be offered as guide and model to underdeveloped nations. Its gist: 1) as many medium, family-sized holdings as possible; 2) breakup...
...Trial (Mon. 9:30 p.m., ABC). "Should We Reform Our Divorce Laws...
...political organization in the country. At the last elections, policemen handed out ballots to the illiterate fellahin and showed them where to make their marks (in that way one cop boasted he had cast 5,000 straight votes for the Wafd). The party made numerous campaign promises of social reform, has carried out virtually none of them; the one way in which it hopes to keep its popularity and make the people forget about their discontent is to whip up anti-British feeling...
Though action, and particularly rebellious action, went much against his grain, his friend St. Teresa of Avila enlisted him in her crusading reform of the Carmelite order. Anti-reform monks kidnaped and imprisoned him in a cell in Toledo's Carmelite priory for eight months, where he was taken out once a day to eat crusts and water on the refectory floor, and kneel while the monks tried to change his mind by walking in a circle around him, lashing his bare back with leather whips...