Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Byrnes last week announced at a press conference that he had asked nine nations for advice on Japan. He had invited them to appoint delegates to a Far Eastern Advisory Commission which will convene in Washington on Oct. 23. The nine: Britain, China, Russia, France, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, The Netherlands, the Philippines. Others, notably India, may be invited later...
...Prime Minister's vagueness could not hide one fact: an Empire family party was in the making. Also in London -or on the way-were Australia's External Affairs Minister Herbert Vere Evatt, New Zealand's Paddy Webb, South Africa's Deputy Prime Minister Jan Hendrick Hofmeyr. Like Mackenzie King, they were admittedly intent on gaining for Britain's Dominions an effective voice in the writing of the peace. It looked as if four lobbyists were about to turn on the pressure...
Something had to give. At week's end Mr. Byrnes announced the solution: the preliminary commission already proposed by the U.S. would meet shortly in Washington and set up a stronger commission for Tokyo. Participants: the Big Five, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, The Netherlands, the Philippines, possibly India...
...Zealand: "There has been nothing blatant about United States publicity. It has been directed almost exclusively along cultural lines, with the objective of explaining the American way of life and promoting better understanding...
...scriptwriters were used on one or another of its 150 pro grams. Its guest performers have included Carl Van Doren, Archibald MacLeish, Orson Welles, Canada Lee, Tallulah Bankhead, Deems Taylor. The Army broadcast it to servicemen over 400 radio stations, and the OWI beamed it to Australia and New Zealand...