Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain's Foreign Office has been trying to explain away ever since. Lunching with Indonesia's President Sukarno, who has made India his first stop on a six-week "rest cure" away from his fragmented country,* Macmillan listened noncommittally to an appeal for his aid in moderating Australian opposition to Indonesia's claim to Dutch New Guinea...
...Washington diplomat" may be right about Indonesia's going Communist in the Dutch-Indonesian conflict. Ever since Sukarno has been president in Indonesia (1945), nationalism has been equivalent to opportunism. After Dutch West New Guinea, Indonesia's next targets will be British West Borneo, Portuguese Timor and Australian East New Guinea...
...parliamentary luncheon (boycotted by some Australian Laborites who refused to mix socially with the Japanese), Prime Minister Robert Menzies proposed a toast to the Emperor of Japan. "Well," said one M.P. to an ex-P.W.: "I don't suppose you ever thought you'd drink to Hirohito's health when you were in that Jap prison camp in Malaya." The ex-P.W. grinned and drank his toast. Said Kishi later, in a forthright speech: "It is my official duty, and my personal desire, to express to you and through you to the people of Australia...
...refusal to hand over Dutch New Guinea. (Says Sukarno: "I don't get it. The Dutch have given us the main building, but they still cling to the garage.") Organized bands of hooligans smeared blood-and-thunder signs on cars and the walls of Dutch-owned shops and Australian homes from one end of Djakarta to the other...
Only in the last five years has the Australian administration brought the Fore under regular supervision (it rates them "semi-controlled," meaning that they usually resist the temptation to plunge a spear into a patrol officer's back). A year ago the government sent Dr. Vincent Zigas, Estonian-born district medical officer, into the Fore country to investigate kuru. Appalled to find that the disease is invariably fatal, Zigas hurriedly shipped blood and brain specimens from victims to Melbourne's famed Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, hoping that the laboratories would find a virus cause for the disease...