Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twelve hours-and again the fleet will bear away, to the southeast. The cruiser squadron headed by the Seattle with three Admirals aboard- Coontz, Cole and Leigh-will go to Melbourne, Australia. The battle fleet, headed by the California under Admiral S. S. Robison, will go to Sydney, New Zealand. Later, a light cruiser squadron will go on from Melbourne to Hobart, Tasmania...
Admiral of the Fleet Lord Jellicoe of Scapa, until recently Governor General of New Zealand, was created an earl and chose as his second title Viscount Brocas of Southampton. Earl Jellicoe is the last of the supreme War leaders to receive an earldom...
...delegation of 25, headed by Mr. Wilbur and including William Allen White, Prof. George H. Blakeslee, Prof. Jeremiah W. Jenks, Prof. W. W. Willoughby, President Mary E. Woolley of Mt. Holyoke College and others, gathered. Similar efforts were undertaken in other countries?in Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, the Philippines. A list of problems of the Pacific was prepared and each national group undertook preliminary study...
...Dominions (Canada, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, Union of South Africa, Irish Free State), i.e., those which have autonomy, have claimed since the War a right to be consulted on all foreign-policy questions in which they may be vitally interested. Britain granted the right, but all efforts to set up political machinery to effect it have failed. The new arrangement at least facilitates communications with the Dominions, and, in the words of Premier Baldwin, "clear recognition of the profound difference between the work of communication and consultation with self-governing partner nations of the British Commonwealth and the administrative work...
...Mother Country in any policy or war which she undertakes; in practice, it has never worked out that way. It is thus argued that, if the Dominions are morally obliged to support the United Kingdom, and since they have (following the signing of the Versailles Treaty which Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Union of South Africa signed separately) international status as independent nations, the least that could happen in equity would be to give them a share in the control of the destinies of the British Commonwealth...