The key figure in the Land Reform was Wolf Ladejinsky, an anti-communist
socialist. sorry. have to go.
Jim Devine wrote:
> At 01:09 PM 2/5/01 -0500, you wrote:
> > It should be remembered that one reason why
> >land reform was easier to impose in both Taiwan
> >and South Korea was that many of the landlords
> >were either Japanese or had been very close to
> >the by-then-deposed Japanese overlords.
>
> exactly -- and the US thought it was good too, since it helped fight the
> Red Menace. In fact, General MacArthur sponsored the land reform in Japan.
>
> BTW, there's a book title THE TRIUMPH by John Kenneth Galbraith in which
> there's a radical communist revolution in a fictional South American
> country, where the new leader uses the precedent of MacArthur's land reform
> to justify his policies.
>
> Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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