Word: theys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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On the land that he does work, Berlingieri-like most of Italy's other larger landowners-follows an ancient ruinous practice: he raises two wheat crops in succession, and turns the produce into a quick cash profit. Then he returns the land to his sheep. Berlingieri's tenants...
Said Francesco Mauri at nearby Cutro: "This land will be ours as soon as it is cleared, or we will lie dead upon it. They may kill us, but we won't leave the land."
The Rape of the Land. This deep feeling for the soil is shared by many Italian landowners who work their land themselves, or treat their tenants as fellow owners. But under Italy's widespread system of absentee ownership, too many masters of the land rent it out for a...
Near Cutro, a peasant paused behind his plow and explained how the system works: "This land belongs to the heirs of the noble Filippo Albani. They live far from Calabria. Cavaliere Francesco Cosentino rents land from them. He is a wealthy gentleman who sits in an armchair in Crotone. When...
The Call of the Hour. The civil authorities on whom Father Lombardi called last week had realized at last that action was urgent. A government law, passed three years ago, had granted Italy's peasants the right to move onto certain fallow lands-provided they first obtained permission from...