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...closed debate on ratification of the peace treaty with Japan. A heavy majority of Democrats and Republicans, 66 to 10,* voted for ratification of the treaty drafted last September in San Francisco. They followed up by approving the three mutual defense treaties, with Japan, the Philippines and Australia-New Zealand, that frame U.S. security in the Pacific...
...annually plays host to dozens of visiting dignitaries, conducting them on the standard tour: Houghton Library, Mark IV, and the Glass Flowers. These dignitaries have included the Chancellor of the University of New Zealand, a Brazilian radio commentator, and a Siamese prince who was so "impressed that the offered us a five-dollar tip." Members of the group cannot accept tips...
...Winston Churchill waved farewells at London airport, the British Overseas airliner Atlanta touched down and the British Empire's favorite emissaries, Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, began the first leg of a five-month, 30,000-mile tour that will take them to Ceylon, New Zealand and Australia...
...north, for Belgium in the center, for Greece in the south, leaving all the rest of the continent of Europe as fair game for Communist aggression." The governor, as he has done before, proposed a defensive alliance that would include not only Japan, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand, but also the islands of Indonesia and the menaced countries of Southeast Asia. With the alliance, he said, there should be a clear warning that retaliation would be visited on any aggressor...
Cold Feet. In Rotterdam, just before the S.S. Sibajak sailed for New Zealand, a Dutch emigrant canceled his passage, explained that his mother and sister had not yet finished knitting the six pairs of socks he needed for a fresh start in life...