Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After his ordination in 1944, his superiors allowed Father MacEwan to continue his musical career part-time. He traveled as far as New Zealand and Australia, singing to sellout houses. But before starting his first U.S. tour last month, he lost 18 lbs. just worrying about the hard-boiled audiences he expected to meet. During his 28-day tour, he sang twelve recitals and made four TV appearances. From Shreveport, La. to Fall River, Mass., with stops in Chicago, Detroit and Pittsburgh, Father MacEwan found only enthusiastic audiences. Wrote Chicago Critic Claudia Cassidy: "You would have gone quite a distance...
...world stage, Evatt was the same dashing, confident performer. Australia had never really had a foreign policy until he swaggered out to speak, usually at great length, for "Austrylia." He negotiated the first test model of the post war regional security pacts (between Australia and New Zealand), and in 1948 was elected president of the U.N. General Assembly...
Important Tie. In Manila Dulles and the representatives of seven other nations -Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan-had hammered out and signed a Southeast Asia defense pact. In it the U.S. agreed that an armed attack-or an attempt at internal subversion-against any of the territory covered by the pact (see FOREIGN NEWS) would be considered a threat to the "peace and safety" of the eight signatories. In the event of such an attack, each of the eight nations would be obliged "to meet the common danger in accordance with its constitutional processes...
...markedly different views seem evident [at Manila]. The Philippines, Thailand, Australia and, somewhat more mildly, New Zealand, have shown a preference for a strong security organization based on a NATO-like defensive military alliance. The United Kingdom and France, with tacit if reluctant U.S. consent, prefer a loose treaty of mutual defense subject to the constitutional processes of each participating state. The U.S. is caught between the two contradictory positions held on the one hand by its best friends in Southeast Asia and the western Pacific, and on the other by two of its outstanding allies in Europe...
Regrettably, only three Asian nations -Pakistan. Thailand and the Philippines -had accepted invitations; the others who would be present were Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand. According to the draft proposal, these SEATO powers would recognize that an armed attack against any part of the SEATO area would endanger them all, and would act to meet the common danger "in accordance with their own constitutional processes"-in other words, not automatically. In the likelier event of the Communist technique of "rotting from within," Indo-China-style, the SEATO powers would "consult immediately." This was hardly a firm pledge...