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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great march was on. All over Italy, but mostly on the brown, exhausted earth of Calabria and Sicily, thousands of peasants were taking by force what they wanted most in life-land. Swinging picks and axes, they invaded the big estates and began to work the soil...

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

...Sheep of Melissa. The great hunger for land has been gnawing at Italy's vitals for years; it has nowhere been more fierce than in Melissa, a grey, forlorn village in malaria-ridden Calabria, where the wave of land seizures began, in bloodshed, more than a month...

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

...Great are your achievements, Comrade Kostov. Under your leadership and inspired by your heroic life, thousands of Communists were educated into unquestioned loyalty to the party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Impudence in Sofia | 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 »

...three days, the Bulgarian press was too dumfounded to mention Kostov's defiance. Then Moscow's Pravda reported that the startling words of the "despised Anglo-American spy" with the "thieving eyes" had aroused great indignation. Taking their cue, Sofia papers expressed great indignation at Kostov's "impudence...

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

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