Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Australian Foreign Minister Herbert V. Evatt, who is also his country's prime representative to the United Nations, will give the annual Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures at the Law School this year...
Evatt has had a long career in Australian public life. Before representing his government as Foreign Minister at the San Francisco conference, he was Attorney General in the War Cabinet of the Commonwealth. From 1930 to 1940 he was Justice of the Federal High Court of Australia. He served in the legislative assembly of New South Wales from 1925 to 1929, and is at present a member of the Australian House of Representatives...
Planter Kuper reported that Communists had taken advantage of unemployment in the copra industry to incite the islanders. The movement, also called "Marching Rule" (Marxian Rule), was led by natives from Malaita Island, traditional headhunters who had been proselytized by Australian Communist servicemen. The Malaita agitators, according to Kuper, were in touch with a U.S.-organized Communist cell on Guadalcanal...
Winston Churchill, to whom admiring South Australian livestock men had sent a pair of white kangaroos, finally got around to the London Zoo in Regent's Park. But when he got there the pen was half-bare. The she-kangaroo had thrown herself against a fence and died...
...waiting for them Down Under) had anything to do with it. Some were going for the adventure. Wrote one: "New land. Less people. More elbowroom." Some thought they would have a better chance than in the U.S. to start businesses of their own. Many had been taken with the Australian climate and pace of living. Wrote ex-G.I. George Mason: "[Down there], Babbitts and go-getters are conspicuously absent. The people are happy, and in no hurry to slaughter themselves...