Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Occupying a suite of rooms at London's swank Savoy Hotel for the past two months has been short, square-faced, blue-eyed Walter Nash. Once a bookseller in the English Midlands, he migrated to New Zealand 30 years ago. Last week he was back in the country of his birth representing his adopted country in a complicated and-for New Zealand-crucial financial deal...
Treated to a strange sight last week were antipodean U. S. tourists who happened to be in the cozy little seaport of Napier, New Zealand and followed the crowds to its racetrack for the annual Napier Steeplechase, one of the island's most outstanding horse races. A few jumps from the finish line, only one horse had a rider. All the others had lost their jockeys somewhere along the stiff, three-mile course. Like a crazy dream, first one spectator, then another, scampered onto the course, mounted riderless horses, took them over the remaining jumps and finished...
David Low's first published cartoon was printed in a New Zealand paper in 1902, when he was eleven years old. It represented the local authorities as lunatics because of their reluctance to remove certain trees that obstructed traffic. Ever since that time he has pictured himself as a "nuisance dedicated to sanity." His definition of sanity embraces a good many statesmen and policies: Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, armament races, Nonintervention, and Prime Minister Neville (Chamberlain's political "realism." Some of the personages scared by his corrosive brush have had good reason to regret that young David...
After free-lancing in New Zealand and Australia, David Low went to England in 1919, where he drew for the London Star ' until 1927, when Lord Beaverbrook hired him for his Evening Standard. There he has ever since made fun of his employer's arch-conservative opinions. This month, A Cartoon History of Our Times, the seventeenth and best collection of David Low's work, with an explanatory text by Quincy Howe (author of England Expects Every American To Do His Duty), is to be published in the U. S.* Covering the hectic years...
...Artist Low got that way politically is not hard to explain. He recalls that he became "socially conscious" at 19, when he went from deeply socialistic New Zealand to deeply laborite Australia. But for all his savage conviction, he is still a sly humorist. The words he puts in the mouth of his most famous cartoon creation, globular, mustached Colonel Blimp, archtype of the Tory diehard, are an acid parody of Conservative thought. Sample: "Come, come, let's be fair to Franco...