Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finds those decisions unpleasant feels obliged to listen. Three weeks ago. attempting to justify to the House of Commons Britain's failure to consult the U.N., Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd called the U.N. "a policeman with both hands tied behind his back." In Canberra last week Australian Prime Minister Gordon Menzies, protesting the exclusion of British and French troops from the U.N. Emergency Force, said with bitter sarcasm: "It won't be easy ... to establish an international force of two battalions to protect Hungary against the Soviet Union, will it? That is a 30-or 40-division...
...many of its members in Melbourne, and the rest were on the way. The Russians, who arrived five days late (their ship, the Gruzia, had killed time at sea until it seemed safe to put in at a Western port), loudly boasted of their prowess, gorged themselves on good Australian steaks, and promised to take all the medals in sight...
...they heard the news from their homeland, but did not know what to do. Olympic officials nervously awaited reaction from the arrival of the bulk of the Hungarian team. Meanwhile, the Olympic torch, lit in Grecian sunlight and flown south and east, was being carried by runners down the Australian continent. Australian Olympic Official W. S. Kent Hughes made a desperate plea to both athletes and spectators to save the games from politics. "Never before in the history of the modern Olympics," said he with crashing understatement, "have the games been staged in such difficult conditions...
...unquestionably disappointed at the decision. He regrets going, saying wistfully, "you don't leave a university and friends after a long time, quite as easily as it seems," and it's more than likely that he may be around Cambridge on his periodic leaves from the Australian post...
...feels that he is regaining more than he is giving up by taking the Australian position. He says, "I am neither a radio astronomer nor an optical astronomer, I am a Milky Way astronomer." Hearing of this, one of his students said, "We wish him luck, but we wish that only an astronomer were going. Actually he is a teacher and a friend...