Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tokyo airport Menzies shook hands with top-hatted Premier Kishi and his Cabinet, drove off in a gold-decorated black coach drawn by black horses, to lunch with the Emperor and Empress. (The first Australian parliamentarian to shake hands with Hirohito shortly after the war had been condemned in Australia for "a dastardly act.") Glowed the Japan Times: "Mister Menzies has proved himself a man of broad vision and deep understanding." But the Japanese soon found that mincing language is no part of Pig Iron Bob's equipment. Said Menzies: "I've come up here without any reservations...
...ease the sentences of 14 Japanese war criminals, Menzies said genially but uninformatively: "The whole matter is being approached in a most liberal fashion." In the glum pause that followed, Menzies raised his comedian's shaggy eyebrows: "This is a remarkable silence!" A Japanese reporter asked: "Has Australian public opinion reached the point where you may welcome Orientals as temporary or permanent residents?" Said Menzies in cheerful reply: "No; speaking in the broad, there's no such indication...
Breaking Ice. In recognizing that "there is, beyond dispute, a military threat from Red China," Menzies put his finger on the basic reason for better Aussie-Japanese relations. When asked why Australia did not buy more Japanese manufactured goods to balance Japan's purchases of Australian wool (Japan is now Australia's second-best customer), he frankly pointed up the greatest difficulty in the way of making the rapprochement stick: "Our large export income cannot be neatly balanced, because we have great industries that we are encouraging." But the ice had been broken. In the Japanese Diet Menzies...
...Finish. Willing to try anything to make their charges swim faster. Australian coaches experiment with special diets (Murray Rose stokes up on seaweed jelly) and novel styles. A few have even tried hypnotism. But like good coaches anywhere, they depend most on grinding work. In the year preceding the Melbourne Olympics, Australian team members trained hard for ten months, swam six days a week, covered an estimated 80 miles apiece each month. Many of them took a ten weeks' calisthenics course in a Sydney gym, tossed medicine balls, chinned the horizontal bar, did pushups. Buoyant...
...Lainy Crapp and Dawn Fraser were invited to Hawaii's Keo Nakama meet to be held in July the A.S.U. threatened to withhold its approval unless both girls prove that they are in top shape. "They're Olympic champions," said an A.S.U. official-just as if any Australian had forgotten. "We don't want them to jeopardize their chances by competing out of condition...