Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happened in New Zealand last fortnight, and it happened again last week in Australia: the ruling Socialist party was decisively thrown...
...campaign's closing days, the news of Labor's defeat in New Zealand severely jarred Chifley and his men, made a sharp impression on the voters. Menzies hoped New Zealand and Australia had set a trend against Socialism that would reach all the way "home," i.e., to Britain. Said Melbourne's dapper Richard G. Casey, onetime Minister to Washington: "The man who should get the most kick out of this is Winston Churchill...
There will be no change, according to Monro, in the previously announced closing date for applications for awards in Belgium, Luxembourg, France, the Netherlands, Norway, and New Zealand, and for the most of the awards in the United Kingdom. This competition was closed on November 30. The remaining United Kingdom positions are for specialists in particular fields...
...election night in New Zealand, the flat voices of radio announcers reported the people's choice. The broadcasts came from state-owned radio stations; thousands of New Zealanders heard the news in the comfort of state-owned houses, and even the partially deaf listened with hearing aids provided by the state. Many of the welfare state's supporters and beneficiaries could hardly believe their ears: after 14 years of Socialist government, New Zealand had had enough...
Humanitarians & Bureaucrats. For more than half a century, under various parties, insular New Zealand, with its butter and mutton economy, has been an experimental laboratory for welfare statism. Today, social security-paid for by a flat 5% tax on all private and corporate income -includes state-paid old-age pensions, unemployment benefits, medical and hospital care. Industry is heavily regulated, trade unionism and industrial arbitration compulsory. Liberal and conservative governments have shared in the vast social experiments. But ever since the Labor Party took office in 1935, what had begun as a humanitarian drive gradually ossified into bureaucratic socialism...