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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1946
Page
4
The article reports on Bengal’s famine where millions face starvation while rice is scarce wages and rations shrink. Officials push rural Indians to accept and prepare wheat to survive. many villagers reject it as inedible glue like when boiled, and meat remains unaffordable or culturally limited.
Tokyo dispatch reports General Douglas MacArthur endorses land reform legislation to free about two million tenant farmers from feudal bondage in occupied Japan. The measure aims to redistribute land and improve peasant rights under Allied occupation.
The cabinet draft in Japan would let tenant farmers buy land in 30 year installments and cap landlord rents at 25 percent of rice yields and 15 percent on uplands. It limits landlords to 2.45 acres per tenant and 735 acres per farmer on the three islands, with subsidies for forced sellers and a standard price for surplus land. Rural land commissions will administer the program, aiming for completion in two years.
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