Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occupation, this postwar peace would be assured. How many people here would risk their life and that of their entire family for a perfect stranger from some foreign land? The people of France did. They did it for thousands upon thousands of American, British, Canadian, Australian, Polish, Norwegian, New Zealand and South African airmen and soldiers evading capture between 1940 and 1944. I know because I was one of them...
...Trieste last week U.S. and New Zealand troops played soccer with their Yugoslav comrades-in-arms, swam with them in the warm Adriatic, laughed together at British films shown through Yugoslav projectors...
...spots in Europe where trouble between allies brewed. Trieste for a time was closest to actual battle. After Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander issued a blistering statement denouncing Marshal Tito's occupation of the city, New Zealand troops followed the Yugoslav example and went about the streets with automatic rifles. North of Trieste Tito withdrew some troops to the defensible line of the Isonzo river (see map). The Yugoslavs moved their main headquarters back from Trieste, but showed no sign of relaxing their grip on the city. Lest it be cut off in case of fighting...
Last fall, foreseeing trouble, Allied headquarters in Italy designated a New Zealand division to take over Trieste at the first opportunity and hold it under neutral rule pending negotiation...
...times the length of this one. Today the MARCH OF TIME produces La Marcha del Tiempo in Spanish and Portuguese for Latin America and La M ar che dti Temps in French for Belgium, France and the French Empire. It plays regularly in Canada, Britain, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, India (300 theaters) and Egypt (with subtitles in native languages). And here at home it is seen every month by an audience...