Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adams narrative gives special emphasis to the two great political concerns of Britain in the 19th Century: colonies and reform. In the development of Australia, of Canada, of New Zealand, of India, Adams sees and insists on the greatness of early Victorian statesmanship, which worked out the democratic Commonwealth of Nations...
Zeal. Lion's share of credit for organizing cooperatives goes to Rewi Alley. Descended from an early Scottish-Irish family of New Zealand settlers, he took his first name from a native New Zealand chief. He served in World War I, then went to China and to work for the Shanghai Municipal Council. In 15 years he made himself the best-informed man in the world on Chinese industrial conditions...
...possible sixth) for which he received the D. F. C. last fortnight. His arrival in England on leave, to recuperate from 20 shrapnel wounds in left leg and hand, was made the occasion for a burst of unwonted official publicity. The fact that Officer Kain was born in New Zealand, where "Cobber" means "Pal," is a big help to recruiting officers...
Died. Michael Joseph Savage, 68. Laborite Prime Minister of New Zealand since 1935; of cancer; in Wellington, N. Z. He introduced the 40-hour week, raised basic wages, scared business, but kept power through London credits and urban labor votes. Suffering from stomach cancer, he refused to be operated on during the campaign of 1938, found last year it had spread to his liver...
Last week, the 23rd of World War II and the eleventh of its elaboration in Finland, a gigantic slushy stalemate persisted on the Western Front; a third contingent of Canadian troops arrived in England and the first Australian and New Zealand divisions landed at Suez; desultory sea sniping was continued by Germany on Allied and neutral shipping (see col. 3); and in Paris, the Allied Supreme War Council held its fifth full-dress meeting...