Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preparing to integrate Koreans into their units, in the same fashion as the American KATUSA (they will be called KATCOMS). In the present resi-and-training phase, the division is composed of three brigades, one Canadian, one Scottish-English, one mainly Australian, and other smaller units, including a New Zealand artillery regiment. The Canadians and Anzacs are all volunteers. They are commanded by Major General Michael Montgomerie Alston-Roberts-West, who prefers to be known as Mike West...
...boys' Jewish parents, however, had relatives, and they wanted Robert and Gerald as badly as Mile. Brun did. First, a sister of Dr. Finaly's wrote from New Zealand, asking that the children be sent to her. Then, in 1949, a mandate from the Finaly kin was presented in a French court. It asked that the boys be sent to another aunt, Mme. Hedwige Ressner, now living in Israel...
Denmark's tiny army, a link in NATO's northern anchor chain, was shaken last week by ugly spasms of mutiny. On strategic Bornholm Island, 200 draftees went on a disobedience strike, called on "all watches to leave their posts." At Holbaek on Zealand Island, 300 men refused to eat their rations, and bought hot dogs instead. Worst of all, a batch of 100 conscripts from the 9th Regiment of the King's Own Foot Guards set off for Copenhagen on a protest march. Other malcontents were prepared to join them on the way to the capital...
...order to test the validity of the Kon-Tiki theory, Davis left Wellington, New Zealand, last June in a 48-foot ketch, with a crew of two besides his wife and two children. The five month trip carried the group through the wild South Pacific winter and the worst gale to hit New Zealand waters in the last 30 years, reaching here December...
From the Inland Waterway, the Miru hauled out to sea, out in through the Cape Cod Canal, and five months after leaving Wellington, stood off Boston Harbor at dusk on November 2. It was night when she reached the Upper Harbor; her New Zealand flag, tattered and discolored, was unrecognizable. A dimunitive police boat greeted Miru, and escorted her to her temporary berth on the Charles...