Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annually plays host to dozens of visiting dignitaries, conducting them on the standard tour: Houghton Library, Mark IV, and the Glass Flowers. These dignitaries have included the Chancellor of the University of New Zealand, a Brazilian radio commentator, and a Siamese prince who was so "impressed that the offered us a five-dollar tip." Members of the group cannot accept tips...
...Winston Churchill waved farewells at London airport, the British Overseas airliner Atlanta touched down and the British Empire's favorite emissaries, Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, began the first leg of a five-month, 30,000-mile tour that will take them to Ceylon, New Zealand and Australia...
...north, for Belgium in the center, for Greece in the south, leaving all the rest of the continent of Europe as fair game for Communist aggression." The governor, as he has done before, proposed a defensive alliance that would include not only Japan, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand, but also the islands of Indonesia and the menaced countries of Southeast Asia. With the alliance, he said, there should be a clear warning that retaliation would be visited on any aggressor...
Cold Feet. In Rotterdam, just before the S.S. Sibajak sailed for New Zealand, a Dutch emigrant canceled his passage, explained that his mother and sister had not yet finished knitting the six pairs of socks he needed for a fresh start in life...
...without military controversy beforehand. New Zealand's General Bernard Freyberg, commanding the assault troops, insisted on the bombing. His superior, U.S. General Mark Clark, resisted for a while, then reluctantly referred the matter to the theater commander, British General Sir Harold Alexander, who gave the go-ahead. Winston Churchill's later verdict: "The result was not good. The Germans now had every excuse for making whatever use they could of the rubble of the ruins, and this gave them even better opportunities for defense than when the building was intact...