Japan and American 'Democracy'

[michael]

The land reform in Japan was devised by Wolf Ladejinsky, a violently
anti-communist socialist, whom Tugwell brought to Washington.  Ladejinsky
thought that without land reform, Japan and Korea would go communist.  He tried
to help the Chinese to institute a land reform in one province, but it was too
late to prevent the revolution.

He never got to work on the Korean land reform because he was accused to being
a communist-type, but his policies were carried out.

Later, he worked on land reform in Vietnam during the war.  I think that I
recall that his land reform was not unrelated to the strategic hamlet program.

--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu