Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain, by agreeing to the Brussels pact, had waded in nevertheless. Last week there were signs that Britain was ready to take a full plunge. Many Britons were ready to go a lot farther. Seventy-one M.P.s signed a resolution got up by Australian-born Labor M.P. Ronald W. G. Mackay (rhymes with black eye) calling for complete merger of Western Europe and Britain in one federation. The seventy-one signers were members of all non-Communist parties; violent political enemies stood together on this vital issue. The resolution may become a historic milestone. It reads...
...Australian Mission to the United Nations...
...watercolors were copies of sacred "sand paintings" made by the Navajo Indians. Other races paint in sand (notably the Australian aborigines), but none ever raised the ancient art to such heights...
...first native-born Governor General of a British Dominion (Australia, 1931-36); in Melbourne. Isaacs found himself a storm center in Empire affairs when he was nominated; "a man the King has never seen," he was approved only at the insistence of Prime Minister James Henry Scullin and the Australian people...
...four-engined British South American Airways transport radioed an 11 p.m. "All's well." Then silence. At week's end, despite the greatest peacetime air search of the Atlantic, no vestige of the plane had been found. Aboard were a crew of six and 21 passengers, including Australian-born, battle-greyed Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, 52, who commanded the Allied tactical air forces at the invasion of Normandy...