Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scandal and the making of a ghastly tragedy. . . . Subsidies are the tangled net in which a free people become so enmeshed that they become helpless pawns of a dominating centralized Government." Administration talk of inflation seemed to Mr. Sexauer just a "bogeyman to induce a nation to accept social reform, regimentation, limitation of opportunity and incentive...
...adamantly for: 1) a purge of ex-Vichyite officers; 2) a modernization of the armed forces along the lines he had vainly preached .for two decades before the fall of France. General Henri Honore Giraud had agreed in principle, but he wanted control of the scope and tempo of reform. Over these issues the negotiations deadlocked while the Generals kept apart. Then, one evening in the quiet of his home, General Georges Catroux brought De Gaulle and Giraud together again...
Place to begin reform (and where it will be hardest) is the U.S. tariff: "American tariff policy is obviously the crucial, immediate factor in postwar planning. . . . The great world power cannot remain even moderately protectionist without squandering, its opportunities and repudiating its international responsibilities. Our tariff structure must be dismantled immediately and as a whole...
...Mexicans, Avila Camacho stood for the middle way, the return to quiet, earthy values. They listened when he said "Soy creyente" ("I am a believer"), a profession of faith which no Mexican President had publicly voiced since Benito Juarez nationalized the church's properties during the 1856-59 reform laws. They listened when he said "Los que no se obtiente por la buena es negativo" (That which is not obtained by good will is negative...
Prisoners at Camp Phillips, as at other centers, are divided into three groups, depending on the heinousness of their offenses and the prospects of their reform: 1) first-grade prisoners get basic infantry training all over again, a tobacco ration, may write two letters a week, may be visited by their families on Sundays and holidays, may read certain books and magazines; 2) second-graders are restricted to one letter a week, may keep only one book, a magazine and Bible in their quarters; 3) extreme cases are completely restricted: no tobacco, one letter a month, four trips...