Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter to the London Observer, Elder Statesman Earl Attlee wrote: "I believe that the government now realize that they have made a grave error in deporting the Archbishop, but will not admit it ... Any reading of history would have told the government that when discussions on constitutional reform break down, and when the accredited leaders of a nationalist movement are deported or imprisoned, the result is always a resort to violence. Leadership passes to the extremists, the voices of reason are silenced, murderers are regarded as heroes, and, if executed, are held to be martyrs . . . In the long...
Changing the Will. Last year, when it became evident that the miserly old Nizam was looking healthier than ever, bookies and creditors began to press for payment of the prince's debts. Father Nizam paid off some $4,720,000, and the prince promised to reform. But he didn't. In the past twelve months he has chalked up debts some $500,000 in excess of his income. Last week the Nizam called a halt: Azam's 23-year-old son, now at Sandhurst, and not Azam himself, would become the Nizam's heir. Henceforth...
...with some 500,000 practitioners, flourishes in Japan as it does almost nowhere else. Infamous the world over, Tokyo's thriving red-light districts, ranging from the lacquered pleasure domes of Yoshiwara to the noisome and disreputable turmoil of Shinjuku and Kamedo, have felt the chill winds of reform blow closer and closer, but each time the storm has passed...
Their long-awaited report is a disappointment to those who expected a sweeping program for reform. Most of their recommendations are useless or undesirable. Out of the entire report, only one point deserves serious consideration by the Administration. The others, from demands for better chefs to those for better meat, merit only refutation. It seems extremely unlikely that more qualified cooks could substantially improve the quality of nay meal which must be served to 4000 men over a two-hour period. The suggestion that the $10,000 surplus in dining hall funds be spent on better cuts of beef...
Proud Eye. Italy's urbane, frail Premier Antonio Segni comes from Sardinia. As the father of Italy's postwar land reform (he himself surrendered 200 acres of rich olive groves outside Sassari), Premier Segni keeps a proud eye on the Sardinian transformation, and almost every Sunday without fail flies the 125 miles from Rome to his Sassari villa. The new Sardinia may do him political good, too, helping to hold his Christian Democratic pluralities on the island in Italy's nationwide municipal elections a fortnight hence...