Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Domestic Matters. After the assembly voted 51 to 10 to debate the truth about Hungary, New Zealand's Sir Leslie Munro, the U.N.'s special representative on the Hungarian question, reported that eight Hungarian patriots have been secretly tried and executed recently and "there is imminent possibility of further executions." Sir Leslie noted with scathing constraint that the Communists barred him from visiting Budapest on grounds that the 1956 uprising was "a matter of domestic jurisdiction," yet continued to spread the "fanciful" and contradictory story that "the uprising was instigated by foreign powers...
Clamping Down. In Rotorua, New Zealand, Heslett Thompson, 22, lost his driving license for attacking a pedestrian who walked in front of his car, and biting off a piece...
...tidy, it's an administrative nightmare," said the director. "But it works." The Colombo Plan, with a tiny staff of clerks, is a kind of clearing house for economic relations between 15 "recipient" nations of Southeast Asia and six "donor" nations-the U.S., Britain Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Since the plan was started in Ceylon nine years ago, primarily as a mutual-aid forum of ten British Commonwealth nations, it has become the accepted regional headquarters for development plans affecting a quarter of the world's population. In that time $6 billion in foreign aid has been...
Herter's carefully prepared speech fore-shadowed a determined campaign by the Eisenhower administration to persuade prosperous European nations, as well as Japan, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, to increase substantially their spending in Africa and Asia...
...Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Britain, Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, South Africa...