Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Terror & Reprisal. In Algeria terrorism is paying off handsomely. On the one hand, it has prevented moderate Moslems from getting together with the French (near Constantine a fortnight ago police found the trussed cadavers of nine Moslem delegates who had agreed to participate with the French in a municipal-reform program). On the other hand, it has driven Algeria's million Frenchmen to a frenzy of resentment and counterterror. Typical were the riots provoked by the assassination in Algiers of Patrol Sergeant Camille le Prial, which last week brought more than a hundred paratroopers smashing through the casbah...
...Reform administrations suffer from a diarrhea of promises and a constipation of performance...
...Faolain a good humored Irishman. He sees the breathing corpses which Joyce portrayed in Dubliners, the scarecrows and fairies with whom Yeats identified, the fools and buffoons whom Shaw cauterized. But this vision of the lover does not move him to the usual nausea or lamentation, but instead to reform...
...Nationalist leaders, painfully aware that many Formosans (Taiwanese) resented the political control of the Chinese mainlanders, were quick to get the point. Overruling the advice of old-line ward bosses (who wanted to gerrymander Taipei into an independent city and make its mayor a political appointee), Kuomintang reform politicians set out to defeat Independent Kao in the next election on his own terms...
Private capital cannot, of course, supplant the $2.1 billion of foreign aid that goes for military purposes. Nor can it be expected to undertake agricultural reform and flood-control projects now financed by the Government. But it could replace some of the most controversial part of the foreign-aid program - the 15%-20% devoted to outright economic aid. Private dollars are far more effective than Government grants or loans because they act faster and more directly to stimulate local economies and generate new capital. Businessmen estimate that $1 in private capital does as much work as $3 in Government...