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Meanwhile the Canadian Communist Party was declared outlawed amid a rush of Dominion feeling against Red quislings. ∧ Nazi invasion of The Netherlands and Belgium caused a great spurt in New Zealand recruiting. Prime Minister Peter Fraser, who during World War I was a conscientious objector jailed for "seditious utterances," is now all out for Allied victory, cabled to Prime Minister Churchill a pledge of "the fullest cooperation of New Zealand's Government and people, Europeans and Maoris alike." Recruiting spurted strongly on news of the latest Nazi Blitzkrieg...
...Adams narrative gives special emphasis to the two great political concerns of Britain in the 19th Century: colonies and reform. In the development of Australia, of Canada, of New Zealand, of India, Adams sees and insists on the greatness of early Victorian statesmanship, which worked out the democratic Commonwealth of Nations...
Zeal. Lion's share of credit for organizing cooperatives goes to Rewi Alley. Descended from an early Scottish-Irish family of New Zealand settlers, he took his first name from a native New Zealand chief. He served in World War I, then went to China and to work for the Shanghai Municipal Council. In 15 years he made himself the best-informed man in the world on Chinese industrial conditions...
...possible sixth) for which he received the D. F. C. last fortnight. His arrival in England on leave, to recuperate from 20 shrapnel wounds in left leg and hand, was made the occasion for a burst of unwonted official publicity. The fact that Officer Kain was born in New Zealand, where "Cobber" means "Pal," is a big help to recruiting officers...
Died. Michael Joseph Savage, 68. Laborite Prime Minister of New Zealand since 1935; of cancer; in Wellington, N. Z. He introduced the 40-hour week, raised basic wages, scared business, but kept power through London credits and urban labor votes. Suffering from stomach cancer, he refused to be operated on during the campaign of 1938, found last year it had spread to his liver...