Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crossed the Oder to a camp for deportees near Neuruppin in the Russian zone. Since he was an experienced farmer he received a small allotment out of a big estate broken up in the new land reform. Karl Schwarzenberg has a chance of making a new life-as a peasant. He even has a chance of finding his lost child...
...Land Reform. The farms taken from Germans, Hungarians and collaborationists are being redistributed among landless Czechs and Slovaks. The last big estates (not many, since prewar Czechoslovakia carried out an extensive land reform) are vanishing. Agriculture is being rationalized-but not through the Soviet system of collectivization. The kolkhoz (collective farms), Communists agree, would be anathema to Czechoslovakia's peasant landowners. Instead, the Government is promoting farmers' cooperatives on a scale surpassing that of prewar days, when they counted 2,000,000 members...
...done about Sixth Avenue. So, last week, in one of his spasmodic attacks of grandiloquence, did hen-shaped Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Hurriedly he sent an emergency message to the City Council. Members read it with bulging eyes, debated wildly, were unable to call back the moving finger of reform. That evening Manhattan discovered that Sixth Avenue had been renamed "Avenue of the Americas" (pronounced Avunya Damurrikuz...
...Russian-occupied zone, eastern Europe's sweeping Communist-sponsored land reform hit the big landowning Junker, and that stiff-necked class that had long been one of the world's worst curses stood in imminent danger of dissolution. Saxony took the lead. There the Provincial Government issued a decree: all Junker estates of more than 100 hectares (250 acres) were expropriated...
...Socialist, Vice Premier Pietro Nenni, elegant in dapper grey trousers and an ivory-toned monogrammed shirt. Cried he: "Any policy not based on unity of the working classes will gradually lead our country and our party to slip from a revolutionary position to that of mere reform. . . . We are today 700,000 Socialists. When we shall have united with the Communists and formed a new unified party, we must not, however, renounce our Socialism. . . . Perhaps two generations from now differences between Socialists and Communists will have disappeared...