Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Asked how he would justify the loan to Congress, Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson patiently explained about the cart and the horse: Greece could not stabilize unless she got the money, and reform without stability was impossible. The U.S. hope: with the Greek economy improved, elections could be successfully held, which in turn should ease the tense Greek political situation and contribute to recovery...
Last week one ranking American in Japan admitted that nothing practical could be done about land reform until there was a strong farmers' cooperative which could exert pressure on the Jap Government through future Diet representation. Many another MacArthur reform needed similar backing by interested Japs before it would be effective...
...down. Like the good diplomat he was, he gave no reasons other than fatigue and a sense of duty done. But it was clear that he had found few satisfactions in Madrid; he told newsmen that he had observed no effective opposition to Franco inside Spain, no signs of reform...
...admitted that he actually was a candidate (in April he had said: "I will energetically oppose every move ... to make me a candidate"). Then, in the best authoritarian tradition, he unveiled an official party (called the Radical Labor Movement), harangued a multitude with promises of social reform. Hitler-like, he even named his political heirs...
...immediate objective was not revolution or even reform; it sought veto positions from which it could threaten with desertion any cabinet whose foreign policy seemed to oppose Soviet Russia...