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Last week, the 23rd of World War II and the eleventh of its elaboration in Finland, a gigantic slushy stalemate persisted on the Western Front; a third contingent of Canadian troops arrived in England and the first Australian and New Zealand divisions landed at Suez; desultory sea sniping was continued by Germany on Allied and neutral shipping (see col. 3); and in Paris, the Allied Supreme War Council held its fifth full-dress meeting...
...Conservative Party persuaded young Edward Wood to run for Parliament from Ripon, near York. So at 28 he became an M. P. By then he was already well married to Lady Dorothy Onslow, daughter of the Earl of Onslow, one time Governor General of New Zealand...
When World War II broke around wool men's ears, Great Britain impounded the entire wool supply of Australia, plus New Zealand's 300,000,000 lbs. For four months Britain sat on her wool, while U. S. mills which need Australian wool for apparel and blankets fidgeted and watched their supplies run low. The spot price of wool tops climbed from 82½? to $1.31 a pound, and still Britain did not get around to releasing...
...disrupted merchant shipping between New Zealand and South America, the infrequent calls of supply ships had ceased, essentials were running low. The works of Pitcairn's powerful short-wave radio station, VR6AY, had broken down, and parts were in Panama being fixed (TIME, Nov. 20). A completely outfitted relief expedition had been called off because of lack of funds (TIME, Dec.11). The Christians, McCoys and Youngs were isolated and scared...
Last week the Admiral wired a report to the U. S. describing how the U. S. M. S. North Star put ashore relief supplies, which she would replenish in New Zealand; her two doctors treated almost a quarter of the population for ailments, ranging from scratches to scurvy; her machinists and radio operators went over the island's radio receiver. Biggest treat of all: a long cinema program in the North Star's saloon. The audience, most of whom had never seen films before, cried out in amazement at shots of Manhattan. Next day, when the North Star...