Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week took an important step toward security in the Pacific : acting for the State Department, John Foster Dulles initiated a mutual-defense pact with Australia and New Zealand. The treaty, initialed at the same time by both South Pacific nations, calls for "continuous and effective self-help and mutual aid," establishes a Pacific council of foreign ministers to implement the plan. By its terms the three nations declare "their sense of unity, so that no potential aggressor will be under the illusion that any of them stands alone." Eventual aim: to bring all friendly Pacific nations into...
After years of doctoring New Zealand's native Maoris,* Dr. George M. Smith is convinced that in a good many ways they are healthier in mind and body than the pakeha (white man). But, says he, "The diets of both Maori and pakeha are deteriorating. It's this modern craze for vegetables and fruit. The old idea was to feed the fruit and vegetables to the pig and then eat the pig. Physiologically, I am sure, this was correct...
Slow Stranglehold. The union bosses hoped to defeat Holland by dislocating New Zealand trade. Thousands of tons of perishable goods piled up in warehouses. Farmers lost money, local factories closed down for lack of raw materials. Sugar supplies ran out, homes were without heat, gas and power were rationed. Trade loss: an estimated...
...Zealand (pop. 1,850,000) lives by her seaborne trade. But for 16 years New Zealand's ports had been in the grip of the Communist-led Wraterside Workers' Union. * When the Cominform signaled a stepped-up cold war against the democracies four years ago, the union's headlock on New Zealand trade quickly slipped into a stranglehold...
...dockers' unions in New Zealand and Australia maintain close contact with Communist Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union on the U.S. West Coast, in Vancouver and Hawaii, with them exercise effective control over Pacific shipping...