Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME for Jan. 19 you wrote concerning the trip of the Pacific Clipper from New Zealand, "Captain Ford, not knowing the radio frequency for sending, could not break into this interesting conversation" (between Dutch fighter plane and ground station...
...London; it is primarily responsible to the British Parliament; and up to now it has consisted largely of Winston Churchill (with whom eight other members of the full British Cabinet make up the War Cabinet). A keystone of the Commonwealth system is that the four Dominions-Australia, Canada, New Zealand. South Africa-are not responsible to the British Parliament. Yet under the present system the War Cabinet must, and does, bear the Empire's burden of decision in World...
...independence, a minimum of responsibility to London and the Empire as a whole. Even in the midst of World War II the Dominions put autonomy first, a share in Empire affairs second. South Africa's Jan Christiaan Smuts raised not a whisper to aid Prime Minister Curtin; New Zealand's Peter Fraser tended to go along with London and Winston Churchill, did as little as a near neighbor could do to support Australia. Of all the Dominions, Canada had long been the most aggressive in her demands for autonomy within the Commonwealth. Her Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie...
...Withdrew the nomination of Minnesotan David J. Winton as Minister to New Zealand, at Winton's request...
Pacific Clipper, inbound from Auckland, New Zealand. Captain Ford reporting, due to arrive Pan American Marine Terminal seven minutes...