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Once a German colony, the Western Samoan islands at the end of World War I were mandated by the League of Nations to New Zealand, which at first harshly suppressed all independence movements, but since World War II systematically prepared the Samoans for independence...
...Zealand has promised to bulwark Western Samoa's copra, cocoa and banana economy for three years, will train teachers for the island's educational program. With no army, no political parties, and no traffic jams, Western Samoa has little concern for the world beyond its shores. As proof, it committed the ultimate heresy in the eyes of other newly independent nations anxious for an immediate voice in the great-power struggles: it announced that it would not immediately seek membership...
Mayflower is luring not only students-last fall it had 2,400 applicants for 70 places-but also eager foreign helpers. Now on hand are a New Zealand woman teacher of English and French, a young Philadelphia metallurgist who showed up with his wife last fall to teach physics, and a Peace Corps teacher of chemistry and biology. David Schmidt, a Swiss farmer, got so fascinated with Mayflower three years ago that he rented his farm, packed up his wife and four children, now works from sunup to sundown - without pay - making bricks. "When they saw Mr. Schmidt take...
...from their relentless Aussie tormentors. The crucial doubles match lasted only an hour; Pietrangeli and Sirola won only nine games-the worst Challenge Round showing since 1919, when Britain's doubles players dropped all but two games to Norman Brookes and Gerald Patterson of a combined Australia-New Zealand team. "A pathetic display," snapped the Sydney Morning Herald, and Milan's II Giorno agreed: "They played like trained seals." Italy's coach, Czech Jaroslav Drobny, was so disgusted by his team's showing ("They treated the Davis Cup like a garden party") that he planned...
Fivepenny Sixpences. Of various proposals for decimalization, the most practical is the solution already adopted by South Africa and recommended for Australia and New Zealand. The pound note would be scrapped, and the 10-shilling note become the standard denomination, while shillings would represent ten penny units like the dime; the present sixpenny bit would thus represent 5 pence and be equivalent to the U.S. nickel, while the half crown would correspond to a quarter. Britons are divided over nomenclature for the new 10-shilling bill. Some want to call it a "Britannia," others a "noble"-after an English coin...