Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Asian powers, defeated in the last session, got together and succeeded in placing on the agenda a proposal to debate 1) France's rule in Tunisia and Morocco, and 2) South Africa's virulent racism. They won despite protests from France, Britain, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand that such debates constitute "meddling" in internal affairs. The U.S. haplessly reversed its stand of last year, opposed its European allies and joined the anti-colonials. Russia, seeing a fine chance to divide its enemies, was already on the anti-colonials' side...
After five days of radio silence, the 48-foot ketch Miru has docked safely at Willmington, N.C., in the last leg of its trip from New Zealand. The Miru is en route to Cambridge, where its skipper, Dr. Thomas R. A. Davies, will enroll in the School of Public Health...
Davis set sail from Wellington, New Zealand, on May 31, 1952, to prove that Polynesian natives might have sailed to Peru in ancient times. The raft sail of the Kon-Tiki proved the converse; that Peruvian natives might have sailed to the Polynesian islands...
...Clifton Webb delegate to the U.N. General Assembly from New Zealand, will give an informal talk in the Harkness Common Meeting Room of the Graduate Center at 8 p.m. tonight. Since this is United Nations Week, Webb will speak on his experience working with the General Assembly. Besides his U.N. work, Mr. Webb is Minister for External Affairs and Attorney General of New Zealand. The talk, sponsored by the Harvard Law School, is open to the public...
Above all, said Dewey, the U.S. must have a Pacific defense treaty (a project which the State Department considers premature). The individual treaties the U.S. now has with Japan, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand are, by themselves, "either too little or too much . . . We are bound to defend these widely separated, isolated areas . . . but each is likely to turn out indefensible as an isolated spot . . . We should view the Free Pacific as a whole." The U.S. and its allies, said Dewey, are already carrying most of the burdens of a Pacific defense treaty, but are getting none...