Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Lieut. General Sir Horace Clement Hugh Robertson, 65, Australian combat veteran of both world wars; after a heart operation; in Melbourne. As British Commonwealth occupation commander in Japan from 1946 to 1951, Robertson upset American plans for a quiet observance of the third anniversary of the atomic destruction of Hiroshima, bluntly told Hiroshima's citizens: "This disaster was your own fault . . . The punishment given to Hiroshima was only part of the retribution of the Japanese people as a whole...
...report that the Australian male still rules and has not yet become subservient to and dominated by the female of the species as appears to be the state of affairs in the U.S.-although it did take us some time to restore the position after the G.I. invasion...
...quoted a "senior Australian diplomat" as claiming that Australians "can talk to anybody in the world without any sense of innate inferiority." He must be a bigger nincompoop than most other brainless, unlettered Australian public servants, who banned Erskine Caldwell's God's Little Acre and threatened Tom Lehrer with imprisonment if he sang his songs in Adelaide...
Almost every major Australian paper has reproduced the cover portrait-the Australian Women's Weekly (circ. 800,000) reprinted it in full color-and nearly everyone has something to say, from those who call it "a travesty" to those who say it is "a work of genius"-or, more succinctly, from "bloody good" to "bloody awful...
...Melbourne Herald headlined its story MENZIES PORTRAIT-A STORM. The Sydney Sunday Telegraph reprinted the entire cover story, and the Sydney Daily Telegraph editorialized: "That American TIME magazine has chosen Mr. Menzies for its cover portrait is a tribute to a great Australian statesman and a boost for Australia...