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...make things tougher for him, the crisis caught big, cagey "Bob" Menzies in London, where he had been conferring with Winston Churchill (and reportedly criticizing sharply British strategy in the Balkans and Africa). Deputizing for him in Australia was Treasurer Arthur William Fadden, a 45-year-old Queensland accountant whose political stock has been rapidly rising while Menzies has been in Britain...
...evidence for the existence of pigmoid peoples in the Australian mainland is the first obtained by scientists. Birdsell and Tindale found that the traces of the pigmy element in the Australian native peoples are strongest new in the Cairns table-land region on the northeastern coast, in Queensland. It is probably that at their first coming, the pigmy people occupied the whole continent, and have since mixed with, and been anthropologically submerged by the later comers...
Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies has decided to reorganize Australia's wartime press censorship. Fortnight ago he started by kicking himself out of the job of Minister of Information and giving it to an inconspicuous British-born Senator (from Queensland), Hattil Spencer Foil. The most interesting part of the shake-up was that it followed the resignation of Australia's Lord Northcliffe -Sir Keith Murdoch, publisher of a chain of eleven Australian publications-as Australian press censor (Director-General of Information...
Senator Foil, Menzies' successor as Minister of Information, started his career as secretary to the Minister of Railroads in Queensland, fought in World War I until he was invalided out after Gallipoli, in 1919 served on a committee to investigate "The Effects of Intoxicating Liquors on Australian Soldiers." For three years (1926-29) he was the Government's Senate whip, last October was made Minister of Interior. None of these things made him a famous Australian. When the Information Ministry sent out a bulletin announcing the Menzies Cabinet in October, Senator Foil's name was given...
...countries from Finland to Zanzibar. He studied cotton growing in Egypt, bamboo culture in Japan, water chestnuts in China, hops in Bohemia, nuts in England. He brought avocados from Hawaii, mangoes from Bombay, onions from Egypt, mangosteens (a pineapple-apricot-orange-flavored fruit with a dark, tough rind) from Queensland and Java, chayotes ("a delicious vegetable ... of the cucumber family") from Jamaica, chaulmoogra (a leprosy remedy) from Burma. In 1906-07, Fairchild and his staff distributed some 800 tung-oil trees (oil used in varnishes and paints) to pioneer growers in the U. S. South and Southwest...