Word: australians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other voice of influence, in the U.S. or elsewhere, was raised in behalf of famine relief in India until last week, when Australian Prime Minister Curtin said he was arranging to send wheat...
...Guinea. Finschhaven was the third Jap base on the Huon Gulf to succumb to General Douglas MacArthur's relentless drive. Salamaua had fallen in 75 days, Lae in twelve, Finschhaven in ten. The crack Australian 9th Division knocked out the Jap's last pillboxes with hand grenades and swarmed over their stronghold. Few Japs were taken prisoners. Some fled into the jungle with hard-bitten Diggers on their heels. The Japs fought fiercely but, according to the men of the 9th, not as formidably as the Germans. The 9th ("Morshead's Marines") should know. They helped crack...
Washington Answering. Australian newspapers were convinced that there was political niggering in the woodpile. Said the Sydney Sun: "You must remember that 1944 is a Presidential year." Australian newspapers felt that political boosters of MacArthur had done him a disservice...
...Australian infantry commander impatiently signaled a force of Flying Fortresses which were dropping their eggs on Lae. "Forward troops are at the outskirts of Lae. I am prevented from entering by the Fifth Army Air Force." The Fortresses retired, leaving Lae a shambles, leveled by twelve days of concentrated bombing, shelling and machine-gunning. The Diggers swept in. Lae was in the hands of the Allies...
...this week is Sister Kenny's fast-moving, stormy autobiography, And They Shall Walk (Dodd, Mead; $3), in which the Australian nurse describes her 30-year struggle to get her treatment for poliomyelitis accepted. On doctors' desks at the same time are two research reports claiming that Sister Kenny's understanding of poliomyelitis is all wrong. No one now denies that Sister Kenny is good with her hands (in Minneapolis, where formerly about 85% of polio sufferers were left with paralysis, the Kenny method now makes all but 20% as good as new), but her critics insist...