Special Arrangements in the Agrarian Reform.
The efficient German administrative expert must have the possibility of experimentation and his successes and his failures must become the basis for final decision of the central office.
The discussion, which the reporter was able to have with the specialists concerned in the entire eastern areas, resulted in the following proposed solution:
The Russian farmer is without exception land hungry and an opponent of the "Kalchos system." He desires private property of land, even though of limited extent. In contrast to the worker and intellectual he is the most honest opponent of the Bolshevik system. If tomorrow he is denied his property, then we shall lose the east economic and political power with which we could build up the Eastern Area.
Land Distribution According to Merit.
The demand to immediately allot to all farmers, land as private property, is in spite of these political points of view, of course unfeasible for the present.
First of all those farmers respectively their families, who themselves or whose sons have earned special merit in war economy in the fight against partisans, or today or tomorrow at the front, must receive self-sufficient individual farms.
Although later the distribution of land must be carried out in a generous manner without the qualifying clauses used today.
The greatest part of the agricultural region in the East must, because of the political reasons mentioned, as time goes on, become the property of farmer families in order to create a stratum of satisfied farmers as sure counter-weight against possible revolutionary ambitions of labor and intelligentsia in this manner.
State Farms and Farmer's Land