Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Dean Acheson, John Foster Dulles, and a contingent of Senators and Representatives busied themselves with preliminaries. In Washington they had just signed a treaty of mutual assistance between the U.S. and the Philippines. At the Presidio in San Francisco, the envoys of the U.S., Australia and New Zealand listened to the U.S. Sixth Army band play God Save the King and The Star-Spangled Banner, then signed a mutual-defense pact...
...five months, Prime Minister Sidney G. Holland, leader of the New Zealand National (Conservative) Party, bitterly fought the Communist-led Waterside Workers Union, whose repeated strikes tied up the country's vital export trade. Invoking wartime emergency regulations, Holland declared the union illegal, sponsored a rival union, on rare occasions denied the dockers the right of assembly, free speech or publication. When the striking dockers finally gave in (TIME, July 16), Holland decided that New Zealand should have an opportunity to say it approved of his tough methods. He called for a general election...
...which had kept quiet during the strike, now began calling Holland a "Fascist." Labor also dredged up some new issues: 1) the increased cost of living, in part due to the five-month strike; 2) Holland's attempt to put a little free enterprise back into the New Zealand welfare state; 3) an accusation that Holland had slavishly followed U.S. foreign policy (his government recently concluded a security pact with the U.S., will sign the Japanese peace treaty, is against recognition of Peking...
...eight years, New Zealand authorities patiently waited before bringing Horry to trial. Then under the common law principle that anyone who has been declared a missing person may, after seven years, be presumed dead, they seized Horry. Last week, without a trace of a body or part of a body or direct evidence that death had taken place or a confession by the accused, the court convicted Horry of his wife's murder. The sentence: life imprisonment...
...them again by 3% to 5%. All wholesale prices had edged lower again, and retail food prices had dropped 1% in the last half of July. Even houses-especially the older, higher-priced ones-were beginning to move down. Deflation was not a local phenomenon; in far-off New Zealand, the price of wool broke 70% in a week...