Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Germany needed Japan, not only to try to neutralize the U. S., but to threaten the Far Eastern part of the British Empire: Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand. Foreign Minister Matsuoka believed Japan could gamble on Germany's winning the war before the U. S. was ready, willing, or able to join up against the Axis in World War II. After two weeks of argument he won over Prince Konoye and the Emperor...
...Pearl Harbor). Before the war started, Britain's strength at Singapore consisted of three cruisers, one aircraft carrier, nine destroyers, 15 submarines and a number of smaller craft-only enough to play for time until help came from the British China Squadron (four cruisers), from Australia and New Zealand (eight cruisers, five destroyers, some of which are now in the Mediterranean) and from the Mediterranean (now impossible). Singapore's guns are powerful, and the only successful attack would be a long siege and food blockade. But if the Japanese succeeded in taking the rest of the Indies, they...
...Union work? "A provisional Inter-Continental Congress" would be set up "on this side of the Atlantic,'" composed of 27 representatives from the U. S., eleven from the United Kingdom, three from Canada, three from Australia, two each from Ireland, Union of South Africa, and New Zealand. This body alone 'would have the power to declare war or peace. "The British Cabinet . . . could no more surrender the naval or other armed forces than the Government of New York can surrender any of the armed forces of the American Union." The British fleet would be secured against surrender...
...some guarantee that the U. S. would become the open ally of the Empire. The U. S. has not the force to undertake the defense not only of Canada and the British West Indies (which it must defend anyhow for its own self-interest) but of Australia and New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore, India and South Africa. The only satisfactory quid pro quo the U. S. could offer probably would involve going to war with Germany, for Britain would have no incentive to save her fleet unless the U. S. offered her hope of victory...
...King decorated Admiral Sir Charles Morton Forbes, Commander in Chief of the Home Fleet; Air Marshal Arthur Sheridan Barratt, overseas commander of the R. A. F.; Major General Bernard Charles Tolver Paget who directed the "historic" withdrawal from Andalsnes; and 40 members of the armed services from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India and the colonies. To a Mrs. Norman Cardwell, 45-year-old farmer's wife, he gave the Order of the British Empire for her singlehanded capture of a shot-down Nazi air pilot. Britons devoured her story in the newspapers. Excerpt...