Word: zealanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bullbat sessions and public meetings at the 21-nation Conference in Paris, Byrnes talked well and vigorously. On one occasion he cried: "I will sit here no more arguing whether the word should be 'and' or 'but' . . . haggling over commas and semicolons. . . ." A New Zealand delegate, W. J. Jordan, was similarly annoyed. He snapped: "I'm sick of listening to 'quack, quack, quack' hour after hour...
Prize Exhibits. Of the Dominions, two-Australia and New Zealand-are Socialist, like the mother country; these, along with Canada, are more closely tied to the free-enterprise U.S. than to Britain in matters affecting their national security. South Africa is strategically British, politically split by Boer nationalism, and socially ridden by extreme racism. Eire takes full advantage of its independence; its chief importance in world affairs is as a bottomless reservoir of ill-will toward its once heavy-handed master...
Uruguay and New Zealand (Roberto MacEachen and Sir Carl Berendsen) tried to escape from the room, were testily waved back to their seats by the Chair (Paul-Henri Spaak). The Ukraine (Dmitri Manuilsky) prodded sarcastically: "Who is to decide which are the 'great classics of human thought?' Human thought has taken some very capricious turns at times! Very capricious. ..." (Lebanon's own uncapricious selections: Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Shakespeare, Leibnitz, Pascal, Descartes, Kant, Averroes.*) The matter was referred to the Assembly, to be referred back to a committee...
Committee Three: Social, Humanitarian & Cultural Matters (refugees, world health organization, equality of women, declaration of fundamental human rights). Chairman: New Zealand's Sir Carl A. Berendsen...
Both White Russia and Poland vigorously defended the big power vote in the hot Assembly debate in the wake of strong New Zealand charges that the veto system was a "shotgun wedding" forced upon the small nations...