Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, the sound of hammering and building rang across the windswept slopes above New Zealand's Island Bay. Workmen were busy on a tomb for the woman who may some day be canonized as the first woman saint of the South Pacific-Suzanne Aubert de Laye, known to the church as Mother Marie Joseph Aubert...
...behind a screen so that the other medical students would not know a female was present. She spent two years nursing soldiers in the filth of the Crimean War. Then, still in her early 20s, she met a French missionary bishop on his way back to New Zealand. Suzanne decided that the time had at last come to leave home...
Three months later, she was slogging her way alone through the New Zealand jungle. The swirling rivers had to be forded, the roads were often impassable, the fierce Maori tribes were fighting a series of bitter wars. Unscathed through it all moved Suzanne-preaching the Gospel in the Maori tongue, setting up dispensaries that grew into hospitals, organizing teaching centers that eventually became schools...
...Labor losses were probably part of the same swing which had brought about socialist defeats in Australia, New Zealand and on the continent of Europe. ¶ Both the British Laborites and Tories soft-pedaled the issue of government-owned industry. Nevertheless, in Britain, there was and still is a vague disappointment with the results of nationalization and it is highly probable that this was a hidden, but important, factor in Labor's loss of steam. ¶| Both parties promised to continue a state welfare program, which is undeniably popular with the mass of Britons. But the Labor Party...
...tomorrow, England will have decided whether to follow New Zealand and Australia in turning the Laborites out, or stick with its present government. The result will be watched closely by all nations endeavoring to find the best balancing point between socialism and capitalism...