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National Disaster. Backbench Tories hooted with cries of "Shame!" Conservative M.P. Anthony Fell.* a former New Zealand sheep farmer, leaped to his feet, rudely accused Macmillan of making "a shocking statement, full of political doubletalk." When Macmillan rose magisterially to protest, Fell yelled, "No! I can be told to sit down by Mr. Speaker, but I cannot be told to sit down by the Prime Minister," went on to call Macmillan a "national disaster" and urge him to resign...
...Commonwealth, which now sends its exports into Britain under preferentially low tariffs, acted predictably with less enthusiasm. In New Zealand the Christchurch Press, which speaks for the country's farms that now send some 90% of their meat and dairy produce to Britain, mourned that "the easy years may be over; and they have been easy years." Australia, though worried, made the best of it. "We hope, with the assistance of Britain," said Prime Minister Menzies, "to be participants in the negotiations, which I believe to be the most important in time of peace in my lifetime...
Died. Sir Sidney George Holland, 67, ex-Prime Minister of New Zealand, forceful, fast-talking proponent of free enterprise in a welfare state whose 1949 election ended 14 years of uninterrupted Labor rule; after a long illness, which forced his retirement in 1957; in Wellington...
...Romans' SPQR (Senatus Populusque Romanus). Britons in the 19th century, for example, contributed posh (port out, starboard home), a way to remember the breeze-cooled side on Indiabound ships. Acronyms first picked up speed in World War I with such coinages as Anzac, for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps, AWOL, for absent without official leave, and asdic (Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee), which eventually led to the development of sonar (sound navigation ranging...
...Sandys' honeymoon was short-lived. Considered the toughest man in the Commons, Sandys met his match in Australia's determined Prime Minister Menzies. Though only 25% of Australia's exports go to Britain, and the nation's economy is far more balanced than agricultural New Zealand's, Menzies was ada mant against Britain's entry into the Market. In four days of tough bargaining, Sandys failed even to win approval for Britain to open negotiations. According to an aide, Sandys was "shocked and flabbergasted." It took nine hours to draft the final brief communique...