Rather than breaking up big farms, he has speeded up the grantingofland titles to rural squatters and bought up private holdings to sell on easy terms to those who lack plots.
In the Andes it was aggravated by well-intentioned liberalism: decrees granting Indians individual possession of communal land, and so the right to sell it, led to large areas being gobbled up by criollo landowners.
But when granting permission, council officers said the Metropolitan Open Land that would be affected was the garden of the building itself, which was not open to the general public.
When Egbert was five, the family moved to the state of Washington, where Ethel's cousin lived, and where the federal government was still grantingland to homesteaders.