Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every night when the wind was not kicking up a sand, Australian, New Zealand and Indian patrols crept out from the circle of the strong points which the Eyeties had built for their defense of Tobruk. They were armed with tommy guns, grenades and bayonets. Three or four miles out they came on Italian concentrations, inched within lobbing distance, then let fly. The Italians, clumsy at patrolling and clumsier at countering it, suffered mean casualties...
...world's deadliest political caricaturist, little-necked, New Zealand-born David Low of the London Evening Standard, this week published his first collection of World War II cartoons, Low on the War (Simon & Schuster, $2). Low, who has cartooned for 39 of his 50 years, declared war on the Axis long before the Allies did, now doubles as a London fire warden.* German Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, who mortally hates & fears Low's cartoons (note the clubfooted, degenerate dwarf at lower right), had a brief revenge last year: Low came down with German measles...
...successful Axis counterattack which drove the reduced British forces back into Egypt was due chiefly to: 1. Malaria, which decimated Australian and New Zealand troops...
...While the Commission announced that U.S.-flag ships would take over Britain's shipping services to Australia and New Zealand (thus releasing British ships for combat-zone traffic), Franklin Roosevelt signed a bill authorizing the Maritime Commission to take over and use all foreign vessels now idle in U.S. harbors. Thus, with a pen squiggle, the U.S. became the prospective owner of 84 ships, totaling 459,140 tons. Topped by the $80,000,000 Normandie, now lying idle at her dock in the Hudson River, they also included freighters and six tankers-to help replace the 50 oilers recently...
Disguise? Of those first 3,000, the British charged that fully half were disguised in New Zealand battle dress. BBC warned: "Every German soldier must know that whoever, in violation of the rules of international law, fights in an enemy uniform, must expect to be shot at once when taken prisoner." German spokesmen at once denied the charge, saying that the men were wearing khaki uniforms, similar to those of the German African Corps, for use in warm climates...