Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answered the Philippines' demand for $8 billion in reparations by pointing out that such reparations in the end would have to come from the U.S., which has already given the Philippines $530 million for war recovery. He quieted Australian and New Zealand fears of Japan by presenting them with a tripartite pact in which the U.S. guaranteed to come to their aid against any future aggression. He listened to British arguments that Japan's recovery would injure Britain's textile trade, shipbuilding business. His answer in effect was that the nations have no right to legislate against...
Other M.P.s, both Labor and Tory, heatedly echoed the question. Cause of the commotion was Australian-born Scientist Eric Burhop, 40, leftish lecturer in physics at London University who had spent some 18 months during World War II working on atom projects in the U.S. Last fortnight, just as Burhop was about to leave for a "good will" trip to Moscow with 19 other members of the British-Soviet Friendship Society, his passport was canceled...
...slacks and white shirts, looking as if they had just come from an afternoon of punting on the Thames. One was 41-year-old Alan Winnington, British correspondent for the Communist London Daily Worker, who has been denounced in Parliament as a traitor (TIME, May 21); the other was Australian Wilfred Burchett, 39, a reporter for Paris' Communist daily, Ce Soir. They are the only Western newsmen covering the war from the Red side...
...feel," asked Reuters' Ross Mark, an Australian, "when you see your own chaps being brought in as prisoners?" Answered Winnington: "My first feeling is that they are only unfortunate people...
...paintings by Naturalist John James Audubon are as rare as ivory-billed woodpeckers. Perched on easels in the White House last week were ten of the rare species, a gift to the U.S. from Australian Refrigerator Manufacturer EJ.L. Hallstrom, who wanted to show his appreciation of U.S. help to Australia in World War II. The Hallstrom Audubons traveled to Australia years ago, when a great-grandson of the painter went Down Under to raise sheep. His heirs sold them to Hallstrom...