Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Home-guard guerrillas were organized in Australia as the Japs, advancing in New Guinea, advanced also toward the Australian mainland. Everybody in Australia knew that MacArthur's planes were too few, their crews overworked; that Australia invaded would be in dire straits. In New Zealand, Prime Minister Peter Eraser, just home from the U.S., broadcast: "We shall have to steel ourselves for the next twelve months. . . . It's not enough simply to hold the enemy. The United Nations must advance...
...President of the U.S. had a bright idea. He told his press conference that he thought it might be a good idea for the U.S. to have one meatless day a week. He and New Zealand's visiting Prime Minister, Peter Fraser, had figured out that 30 or 40 ships would be set free for other uses if the U.S., instead of far-off New Zealand, Australia and Argentina, sent meat to Britain...
...President of the U.S. has ever met so many heads of foreign governments as Franklin Roosevelt. Last week war brought another of them up the White House steps: Peter Fraser, Labor Prime Minister of New Zealand who had come to discuss the war in the Pacific...
...only the actual attack in force on the Solomons made these moves effective. That attack was directed by Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley, Commander in the South Pacific with headquarters in New Zealand. Fresh from a two-year tour as naval observer in London, Admiral Ghormley is vaguely known by the public as a figure in top-drawer naval diplomacy, but the Navy regards him as one of the best sea planners who ever came out of Annapolis...
...battle was a model of carefully thought planning, astute execution, use of every tool he had within reach. This time Douglas MacArthur in Australia knew what was afoot, as he did not in the Battle of the Coral Sea; he was enlisted by his opposite number in New Zealand to join in the first fully planned big-scale battle cooperation of U.S. Army and Navy in World...