Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...object," says Vinoba Bhave, "is to transform the whole of society. Fire merely burns; it does not worry whether anyone puts a pot on it, fills it with water and puts rice in it to make a meal. Fire burns and does its duty. It is for others to do theirs...
...Lenin made Molotov Second Secretary of the Communist Party Secretariat. The first secretary: his old ally Joseph Stalin. In the Trotsky-Stalin feud Molotov stuck by Joe, helped him transform the dictatorship of the proletariat into the dictatorship of the secretariat. One by one, the Old Bolshevik revolutionaries went down before Stalin's wrath: Trotsky the warlord, Zinoviev, chief of the Communist International, Bukharin, Lenin's "closest disciple" and longtime editor of Pravda, Kamenev, ambassador to London and Rome, Tomsky, head of trade unions, Rykov, head of government. Their power went to Stalin, their jobs to his faithful...
Malaya-Type War. With modern weapons, Kimathi's guerrillas could transform what began eight months ago as a minor "colonial incident" into a bloody colonial war. The British know it. This week they began airlifting two battalions of regulars from Britain to fight the Mau Mau. This would bring the total British force engaged in Kenya to 5,500 white regulars, some 4,000 King's African Riflemen, and every able-bodied white man in the Crown Colony, The regulars would be trained, said the Kenya government, for "Malaya-type jungle warfare...
...French of today wish to find the real, actual, living cause of the impotence. It is not too late ... to transform the political atmosphere. If we do not voluntarily recognize reality, we will become responsible for a catastrophe...
...Nguyen Huu Tri. After long study he settled on a scheme successfully adopted by the British in Malaya-resettlement of peasants in protected villages. Fruitlessly he tried to talk the French military command into a three-part plan to 1) regroup scattered villages into strong farmers' communities; 2) transform communal militias into truly popular forces; 3) harass the Communists whenever they attempt to infiltrate one of the new resettlement villages. Busy fighting, with no money to spare, the French shook their heads. Said a French civil servant: "The French would never dare to undertake such a tricky enterprise...