Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zealand's Sir Carl Berendsen pleaded for a "true truce of God" [in Palestine] during the U.N. inquiry. "Let all passions be stilled." (Next day, Jewish terrorists blew up the Crusaders' Castle in Acre, now a prison, and released 251 Jewish and Arab prisoners, including 80 terrorists. The dead in an hour's gun battle: 14 Jews, one Arab...
...short book published this week, a Presbyterian minister from socialist New Zealand has done his best to bring two strong faiths-Marxism and Christianity -within hailing distance of each other. But Alexander Miller's The Christian Significance of Karl Marx (Macmillan; $1.75) is not likely to convert many Christians to Communism...
...Maoris of New Zealand have produced great singing, but never a great singer. Their ancient love songs are still sung at tribal gatherings. Their traditional war dance (haka) is now used by New Zealand Rugby teams-and modern Maoris sometimes play it for laughs...
Last week came word from New Zealand that Maori musicality has at last produced a likely concert singer. Ini Te Wiata, 34, a logger with a resonant bass, has made such a hit with his countrymen (and with thousands of U.S. Marines in wartime New Zealand) that New Zealand's Labor government decided to do something for him. This week he will board ship for three years at London's Trinity College of Music, a $10,000 musical education at Government expense. New Zealanders, who suspect they have found a native Paul Robeson, do not intend...
...much about their Empire, and do not now. They do care, and they simply don't believe it when they read that they are losing the Empire. They don't mean the technical empire of India, Burma, the Colonies. By "empire" they mean South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Canada-the Commonwealth. That is the "empire" that matters to them, and a good many of them see Britain's future in it. Some of them even think they can somehow transfer much of their home island's population, energy and talents to the Dominions without diminishing...