Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bubbling with happiness, Norwegian Labor's Lie joined Belgian Labor's Spaak and Australian Labor's Makin in UNO's high command. Lie called a press conference, waved his arms at the reporters, bellowed: UNO will be bigger, stronger, sounder than the League of Nations ever...
...Australian Labor Leader T. Dougherty told a Sydney conference that the richest uranium deposits in the world have been found in southeastern Queensland...
Norman John Oswald Makin had come a long way. Last week the errand boy from Broken Hill, who entered Australian politics at 19, was host at a dinner for his fellow UNO leaders at the swank Savoy in London. Russia's terrifying Vishinsky was gaily talkative on his right, and China's Wellington Koo suavely quiet on his left...
Dutch humiliation is nourished by British refusal to allow Netherlands marines to land in Java; by the "undeclared war" waged by Australian wharfside workers who refused, out of sympathy for the Indonesians, to load Indies-bound ships; and by a gradually growing realization that Dutch mistakes brought defeat and disaster...
...Down-under" Australians are hypersensitive to any suggestion of uppishness from those who live at the top of the world, especially "Pommies" (the English). The defensive truculence carries over to domestic affairs. With fierce local pride and last-ditch tenacity they hang on to whatever they have won from others-be it battle positions, jobs, or their underpopulated country which they keep that way by restrictive immigration laws. Australian labor disputes, in particular, have long been notable for the stubbornness of the participants and the pettiness of the issues. Most Australian unions will strike for two pins, but would rather...