Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most vociferous opponents of a strong executive, fearing right-wing authoritarianism. But last week Socialist Mollet declared: "The country has the impression that her institutions no longer correspond to the needs of the modern state. It is for the republicans themselves to take the initiative for a profound constitutional reform." Mollet declared that he intended to introduce "a small number of simple propositions" to provide "the assurance of governmental continuity...
...recent weeks talk has revolved around a bold reform-the institution of a regime presidentiel, patterned on the U.S. system...
...Rocky Reform. With the end of their oldest plague, all new things have become possible for the proud, primitive islanders. Italy's ambitious, $2 billion Cassa del Mezzogiorno (Fund for the South) is now transforming the rocky, scrub-covered face of Sardinia. Already the fund's associated agencies have taken over a third of the island's arable land from large holders and passed it out to peasants in 15-acre plots. By draining the old malarial swamps, the agencies are making another 185,000 acres of cropland for small holders. But the most ambitious project...
Poujade himself was moving his headquarters back to Saint-Cèrè, leaving only a shadow group in Paris to watch the machinations of the decadent Fourth Republic. The States-General, he explained, would not be a Parliament, but would result in "the reform of the state and its institutions, and automatically the passage to the Fifth Republic. My personal opinion is that a presidential-type regime will save the situation." He did not have to name his favorite candidate for President...
...Next Reform. The Ibáñez reforms are not free from peril, though considerably less frightening than the destructive inflation cycle. The first effect of freeing the peso was to devalue it (from the official rate of 300 per dollar to a current 460). That puts heavy strain on the ceiling prices of imported goods, and the whole program is in deep trouble if price ceilings give way. Sure that they will, Labor Federation Leader Clotario Blest, blinking tired eyes in the sunny patio of Santiago's Central Jail, says: "The heart of the matter is that only...