Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agreement with Australia and New Zealand, take such steps for the maintenance of the status quo in the Western Pacific as may be possible in view of our Atlantic situation...
Eire, Canada, New Zealand, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Cuba and the U. S. maintain the only armies in the world of 1940 whose ranks are filled by volunteers. But last week conscription loomed as an imminent reality for the U. S. Never yet has the U. S. had conscription in peacetime, only twice in time of war.* Yet, bulking big in the background for millions of John Does and Richard Roes, peacetime conscription last week cast its unfamiliar shadow over an active week on the U. S. defense front. It was the first big, tough, concrete reality...
Still plugging for an international federation of democratic countries, sparse-haired Clarence Streit, author of Union Now, drafted a "declaration of independence" designed to unite the seven English-speaking States (the U. S., Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Union of South Africa, Ireland) under an "intercontinental congress" which, sitting in Independence Hall in Philadelphia, would be empowered to command their military forces, declare war & peace...
Favorite Van Loon explorer is Captain James Cook, R. N. In the course of three voyages Captain Cook discovered most of the essential facts about the Pacific - that New Zealand is two islands, that Australia is an island continent, that New Guinea is no part of it, that there is no continent between Australia and South America. He also discovered that lime or lemon juice prevents scurvy, and was so far in advance of his age that he flogged his seamen only when they preferred rum to fruit juice. In the end he fell a victim to meat eaters...
...part of your own defensive system. I hope you are not building on that expectation. . . . Only if we are beaten down and the greater part of the fleet has been sunk in action will the remains of it leave home to assist in the defense of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and other distant parts of the Commonwealth. ... It is my view that we are standing today not in the outer trenches of our old joint naval defense system but in the last trenches...