Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vice Marshal Arthur Coningham (no relative) is a dark, strong-faced, deep-voiced, wisecracking, non-smoking six-footer from New Zealand. He has a reputation for talent in cooperation-not a notable talent of previous R.A.F. commanders in the Middle East. Air Vice Marshal Coningham speaks French, German and Italian. He is widely traveled and knows Italy well; he refers to his bombings of Naples as his "slum-clearance project." Of the Germans, whose country he used to visit annually, he says: "They know war from A to about Y. They don't know...
...Colombia 6, Costa Rica 2, Cuba 4, Czechoslovakia 13, Denmark 2, Dominican Republic 1, Egypt 1, England 22, Finland 2, France 12, Germany 41, Greece 5, Guatemala 2, Haiti 1, Hawaii 21, Hungary 3, India 1, Italy 6, Jamaica 1, Japan 8, Lithuania 1, Luxembourg 1, Mexico 6, New Zealand 1, Norway 4, Panama 3, Paraguay 1, Peru 10, Philippine Islands 8, Poland 2, Puerio Rico 10, Romania 3, Russia 4, Scotland 1, South Africa 3, Spain 1, Switzerland 6, Syria 1, Thailand 4, Turkey 2, Uruguay 1, Venezuela 1, and Yugoslavia...
...Bishop is 67-year-old Henry St. George Tucker, whose own see is Virginia (unlike the other provinces of the worldwide Anglican Communion, the U.S. Episcopal Church has no diocese which goes automatically to its top-ranking prelate, like Canterbury in England, Toronto in Canada or Auckland in New Zealand). When Bishop Tucker's term as head of the church expires in 1943, he will not be eligible for re-election because of the age limit. In that same year Bishop James Edward Freeman of Washington, now 75, is also scheduled for retirement. Many Episcopalians expect the new Presiding...
...Zealand Government proposes to speed its war effort by standardizing certain articles of clothing. The hazards of such a plan were suggested last week by Lawyer G. M. Stafford of Sydney, Australia, in the interest of his profession...
Since World War II began. New Zealand politics have simmered in a sticky Cabinet stew. Last week they came to a boil. The Labor Government, with a comfortable majority at the war's beginning, agreed in the interest of National unity to admit the Nationalist (conservative) Opposition to the Cabinet. To satisfy Labor members who disliked the idea, two Cabinets were established, one to run the war, another to run internal affairs. Two of the five War Cabinet members were from the National Opposition...