Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continent down under, the scattered cities and distant towns celebrate yearly with prayers, parades and boutonnieres of wattle* Australia's most important holiday, Anzac Day. Australians like to recall that it was on April 25, 1915, when Australian and New Zealand troops landed at Gallipoli, that the youthful nation "first got into trouble." Last week on Anzac Day, Anzac troops were again in trouble, fighting the last cruel hours of their desperate delaying action at Thermopylae, and Australians' anxiety for the safety of their soldiers and security of their nation ran high...
Last week the New Zealand Ministry of Health announced a new wrinkle in its social-security plan: free medicine. Any person who needs medicine can get it from the druggist free and the Government pays the druggist. Only exceptions to this plan: 1) serums, vaccines, antitoxins; 2) patent medicines...
...Zealand officer, a former dairy farmer from Auckland, told how he and his comrades butchered a gang of Germans trying to cross a stream in one of the Olympic passes: "We sank one boat after another. After two hours the river was teeming with half-sunken boats drifting downstream, and with splashing, drowning men. Some of the boats were littered with dead and wounded men. We got sick of killing them. It was mass slaughter." Parachutists in grey shorts and heavy grey jackets, armed with submachine guns, floated to the aid of the men in the river. "Our position appeared...
...eventually weight told. The same British, Australian and New Zealand troops, five divisions at most, fought day after day, while the Germans rotated 40 divisions, constantly feeding fresh troops into the battle...
...London Prime Minister Winston Churchill asked Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies to postpone his trip to the U.S. and remain for a conference of Dominion leaders: New Zealand's Prime Minister Peter Fraser, on his way to London, South Africa's Jan Christiaan Smuts and Canada's William Lyon Mackenzie King, if they could leave their problems at home. The long-awaited Axis drive against the bastions of British sea power, the drive to capture the subject countries of the British Empire and to isolate the English-speaking ones, had begun in earnest...