Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Zealand delegation to the U.N. was preparing this week to ask the Security Council to begin arrangements for a ceasefire. In this move the New Zealanders were carrying the ball for Great Britain. In the House of Commons last week, Sir Anthony Eden answered Laborite complaints that the President's message to Congress was warlike; Eden assured the House that the President was really moving toward the British line. In the course of the debate the Foreign Secretary described the British line more candidly than ever before. A ceasefire, guaranteed by the U.N., might lead toward the two-China...
Mission to Moscow. Already Sir Anthony had moved briskly. At the first U.S. hint of interest in U.N. intervention, he had rushed to confer with the U.S. and New Zealand. As a temporary member of the Security Council, New Zealand was nominated to take the lead. Among them, they agreed that the cease-fire proposal should be limited to the outlying islands; if Chiang Kai-shek and Chou En-lai got to arguing about Formosa, there would be no hope of agreement on anything...
Blue Water Between. At week's end, Sir Leslie Munro, New Zealand's delegate to the U.N., formally asked for a meeting of the Security Council to discuss the threat to peace in the Formosa Straits. And in his constituency at Warwick, Eden spelled out more of what he had in mind. The Communist Chinese "must not think that because they have been in conflict with the United Nations about Korea that the intention is to ask them to give up what they regard as their rights...
...other butterfat countries (e.g., Denmark, The Netherlands, New Zealand and Australia) the test plan got a rancid reception. "The effect of the present proposal," said New Zealand Ambassador Sir Leslie Munro, "is to export a domestic difficulty at the risk of grave injury to . . . smaller and weaker countries...
Born. To Sir Edmund Hillary, 35, New Zealand beekeeper knighted for his successful 1953 conquest (with Tenzing, the Sherpa guide) of Mt. Everest, and Lady Louise Hillary, 24: their first child, a son; in Auckland, New Zealand. Name: Edmund. Weight...