Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going to fall. Dulles began to search for a countermove that would shore up the West's bargaining power. He decided to propose a conference on "united action" in Indo-China by ten powers-the U.S., Britain, France, the Associated Indo-Chinese states, Thailand, the Philippines, New Zealand and Australia...
...Though it had indeed pleased India's Nehru, it had risked Commonwealth ties in other quarters, annoying Australia and New Zealand, which are both anxious to get on with the Southeast Asia alliance for their own security...
FOREIGN BUTTER PRODUCERS are up in arms against Agriculture Secretary Benson's plan to sell surplus U.S butter overseas at low prices (42? to 47? a lb., v. about 58? in the U.S.). Both New Zealand and Australia, which export about 500 million Ibs. of butter annually, have protested to the State Department that Benson's cut-rate prices constitute dumping. But Benson still plans to go ahead; in fact, he is adding surplus corn, barley, oats and rye to his cut-rate foreign offerings...
...week's end, Dulles tried to patch together a few scraps from the debris-though the Indo-China conference had not yet even formally begun. He called a Sunday meeting with Australia and New Zealand, discussed when and if a united front in Southeast Asia could be put together. He also sounded out Thailand and the Philippines. Monday morning he boarded his plane for Milan and a brief talk with Italy's Premier Scelba before flying on homeward...
...thinks they want to hear about life back home. Each night, she works at her diary, which is later printed in the EM-Kayan, the company magazine; it sounds like a letter to a family of 5,000 children spread around the world. A typical entry: "Wellington, New Zealand. Sept. 13: arose 5:30, breakfast 6 a.m. Departed for the airport 6:30 a.m.. where we took a chartered four-motored plane ... to the Wai-taki Project . . . We were met by cars and driven to the Waitaki hydroelectric project, [where] the ladies were served coffee and cakes. Very sumptuous...