Word: scafarella
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...Scafarella shows no sympathy. "We aren't concerned with production," he says. "We collect rents. Anyway, the peasants are retrograde. If we built clean, good homes, they'd only dirty them...
...Italy's arable land) are an anachronistic obstacle in democracy's advance. But they are only one aspect of land reform. Two years ago the late idealistic Prince Gioacchino Ruffo of Naples sold plots from his estate, at nominal prices, to former tenants. Today, like Scafarella's peasants, they too break arid, gullied soil with picks. They have no cash for better tools, insecticides and fertilizers. Without these necessities they can reap only four bushels of wheat per hectare. The only hunger that has been satisfied has been their hunger for land...