Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...provincial encampments, and this war meant payment of taxes to landlords who would grow fat as they had in Chinese conflicts since the ancient dynasties. Most of all, if the Chinese people were to rally to this fight, they had to be led by a program of land reform as well as by the personality of the Generalissimo, by a guarantee of release from feudal bondage as well as by promises of a government that seemed paralyzed by its own weight...
...vacuum left by moderates who are terrified by change. Theodore White and Miss Jacoby feel that American policy has more to offer than an endorsement of a social structure that the great mass of Chinese rejects. By pressuring the Nanking government into the widest possible program of reform, the State Department can set out on the lone path leading out of the Chinese political jungle. "Thunder Out of China" is a revolutionary document but it advocates that type of revolution-by-consent that holds the last hope for the future of China, with or without Chiang Kai Shek...
Helped Council Reform...
...Pending reform of the Student Council Constitution was aided in part by the needlings of the Liberal Union. It was also quick to rally the student body to the support of Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory, during his stormy October disagreement with Representative John Rankin of the House Committee on Un-American Activities...
...Samuel has not suddenly turned Spanish republican. Now Viscount Templewood, he describes himself as an "English monarchist," suggests that a new Spanish monarchy might bring back peace and even "vigorous social reform" with the crown. But he makes plain his feeling that almost any form of government would be an improvement over Franco's, and cannot hide his disgust with the Franco regime...