Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three Times as Much. The conference's opening session got under way. With remarkable speed, the Ministers agreed on a four-point conference agenda proposed by the West: 1) problems of German unity, including "economic and political principles" and Four-Power control; 2) Berlin, including the currency question; 3) preparation of a peace treaty for Germany; 4) consultation on a peace treaty for Austria (the Foreign Ministers' deputies have vainly tried to draft an Austrian treaty for the past 2½ years). Vishinsky also suggested that a peace treaty for Japan be taken up, but Acheson countered that...
...peasants' land hunger for political ends. De Gasperi has countered with the slogan, "We must have land reform, but first we must develop our land." Last summer ECAgriculturists revived the old Fascist program of land reclamation (as it was carried out in the Pontine Marshes) as a sensible way to more productivity and less agrarian discontent. With U.S. prodding and financial help, three districts are being reclaimed; eventually they will account for one-third of the nation's arable land, provide cheap plots for the landless...
Firmer & Faster. For Premier de Gasperi nothing has been achieved without difficulty. He and his ministers have had to learn all the way. They came without experience from political obscurity in the Fascist era to posts of heavy responsibility. They have displayed shrewd political talent, but they still tend to approach economic problems as scholarly theorists rather than as practical politicians. They know that Italy's hope lies in improved farming methods and more industrialization, but they are not able to move fast enough toward their goals. Said one high-ranking American in Rome: "Unless we do more than...
...look toward America. The sea is no longer a barrier but a road to be traveled over ... In foreign politics . . . what counts [is] mutual understanding . . . and clean friendship on all sides, and so I will say, in the words of the song: 'He who does not feel this way should not ask us for love...
Last week the U.S. Bureau of Internal Revenue admitted that such transactions were legal and that the number of people who had taken advantage of them was "way up in the thousands." It hoped before long to find some way to plug the leak of U.S. tax revenue...