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...without military controversy beforehand. New Zealand's General Bernard Freyberg, commanding the assault troops, insisted on the bombing. His superior, U.S. General Mark Clark, resisted for a while, then reluctantly referred the matter to the theater commander, British General Sir Harold Alexander, who gave the go-ahead. Winston Churchill's later verdict: "The result was not good. The Germans now had every excuse for making whatever use they could of the rubble of the ruins, and this gave them even better opportunities for defense than when the building was intact...
...order to integrate this policy with the actual program of the school. Fletcher encourages government officers to enroll for advanced study. This year, three men in the U. S. diplomatic corps, two officers from the Japanese Foreign Office, and representatives from the governments of Australia. Thailand, Pakistan, and New Zealand are attending...
Died. Sir Peter Henry Buck, 71, lifelong friend of New Zealand's native Maoris, leading authority on the South Pacific's Polynesian culture; in Honolulu. Born to an Irish father who married a Maori tribal princess, Buck led the hard-fighting Maori troops in World War I. He wrote about Polynesians in Vikings of the Sunrise, helped the U.S. Navy resettle Polynesians who left Bikini to make way for the atom bomb tests...
Carrying On. In Otira, New Zealand, a health inspector reported that the Otira Gorge Hotel has only one bathroom, but two doors leading into it-one marked "Ladies," the other "Gentlemen...
...money, he proposes a strong Navy, an "all powerful" Air Force, and an Army no bigger than 3,000,000 men. He would throw in U.S. sea and air power to protect "any island nations which desire our help," i.e., Japan, Formosa, the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand in the Pacific, and "Great Britain of course" in the Atlantic. He would protect the Suez lifeline with troops, if necessary. He would allow the Army "occasional extensions . . . into Europe, Asia and Africa," but "I do not believe that in time of peace we should commit American troops to continental soil...