Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most striking new fact about Japan's farms is the just-finished land reform. Spurred by the U.S., pushed past Diet reactionaries by SCAP and often attacked as socialistic, it actually las had an individualist, conservative result...
Many of Mikofalva's peasants were bewildered. Janos Kelemen, the local president of the Communist-run Peasant Party, to whom Hungary's postwar land reform had given two holds (2.84 acres) in addition to the three he had owned before, said humbly: "I am a stupid peasant. How should I know whether Mindszenty is guilty or not? They tell me in one paper one way, and then comes my friend and tells me these are just lies...
...rapid a push toward reform on the part of the national government, involving dogmatic policy directives, has resulted in killing democratic methods...
Portland's reform mayor, trim, grey Mrs. Dorothy ("I will enforce the law") Lee, was getting unexpected support last week in her drive to clean up Portland. It came from no less a person than Mike Elliott, the beefy, tousle-headed new sheriff of Multnomah County, which surrounds Portland...
Fairbank agreed with the analogy and pointed out that China is one generation ahead of the general nationalist movement in Asia and is already engaged in problems of economic reform. Though China is out of our hands we can still aid in working economic reform on democratic lines in southeast Asia, he pointed...