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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recently, De Gasperi himself went to Calabria to talk to the peasants. He told them that, until the situation was cleared up by law, they might keep the land they had seized. He promised reform. Said he: "... I am no revolutionary, but I cry woe betide landowners who don'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Land Hunger | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Unbelieving Ears. As Kostov walked into the great hall of Sofia's Military Club, which had been rigged up as a courtroom, high Communists in the spectators gallery sat back smugly, waiting for him to cringe before his judges.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Impudence in Sofia | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

When shrewd, peppery President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla made up his mind last month that Chile must devalue the peso, he knew he would have to blitz his country into going along with him. He promptly set out on a fire-eating tour of the country, in which he made faces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: The Mad Method | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Buenos Aires matrons sighed with nostalgic rapture. Not in eight years had their radios brought them the rich, persuasive tenor of José Mojica, onetime idol of Latin women up & down the hemisphere. But last week he was back once again, on a program sponsored by a B.A. department store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Singing Soldier | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Back to the Old Trade. As a novice in his order, Fray José Francisco de Guadalupe had been startled to learn the extent of the chronic shortage of clergy in Roman Catholic South America; he found that on the continent there were areas half as large as Spain without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Singing Soldier | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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