Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Newspapermen from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand will compete for three Associate Nieman Fellowships next year, the University announced yesterday...
...Asia is control of the Pacific Ocean. In war, this control would be challenged and limited by Russian submarines. In peace (and perhaps in war), it is challenged and limited by Communist control of longshoremen's unions on the U.S. and Canadian West Coast, in Hawaii, in New Zealand and in Australia. In all these areas, the Communists shelter behind the English-speaking peoples' guarantees of personal and political liberty...
Communist Harry Bridges (whose International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union controls dock work in San Francisco, Hawaii, the U.S. Northwest and Vancouver) is still undeported after 16 years of U.S. efforts to send him back to Australia. Last week New Zealand's and Australia's efforts to deal with their Communists were in the news...
...Zealand, dockers have been on strike for three weeks. Troops have been loading and unloading ships, but because freezing-plant workers support the dockers, many ships that would have carried meat to Britain left New Zealand with nearly empty holds. As in the Australian strike, the surface issues concern wages and overtime, but the government charges that the real reason is the Communist aim to hurt the Commonwealth. To deal with strikers, Prime Minister Sidney Holland has broad powers. So far, he has used them with restraint. The majority of New Zealanders, including many unions, seem to be backing...
...Australia: 48 dead, 209 wounded, 6 missing, 2 captured. ¶ Canada: 3 dead, 3 wounded. tf France: 44 killed, 201 wounded, 3 missing, 126 lost by accident or illness. ¶ Greece: 20 killed, 45 wounded, i missing. ¶ The Netherlands: 22 killed, 72 wounded, 2 missing. ¶ New Zealand: 4 dead, 3 wounded. CJ The Philippines: 15 casualties (no breakdown of killed, wounded, etc.). ¶ Turkey: 298 dead, 450 wounded, 200 missing. ¶ United Kingdom: 145 dead, 442 wounded, 244 missing, 61 captured. ¶ Union of South Africa: 3 missing...