Word: zealanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-upholstered chair on the blue-&-gold rostrum, sometimes made a note with a gigantic goose quill, quickly handled awkward situations. One spat came after Ambassador Gromyko had urged that the Communist-backed World Federation of Trade Unions (W.F.T.U.) be granted UNO representation. Peppery Premier Peter Fraser of New Zealand spoke up angrily: "Unless we get a resolution with which Mr. Gromyko agrees on every dot and comma, he is not satisfied. I throw that back in his teeth." Said Gromyko: "The method adopted by Mr. Fraser is far from wise. I might equally throw that back...
Belgium, Australia and New Zealand promptly offered their mandates to UNO. Belgium would give her small, densely-settled, mid-African mandate of Ruanda-Urundi, where police see that every native (except the pygmies) keeps at least 1¼ acres under cultivation. Australia would turn over phosphate-rich Nauru, New Guinea and neighboring islands. New Zealand was ready to relinquish mountainous, copra-producing Western Samoa...
Second in importance only to the Security Council was the Economic and Social Council. Seventeen of the 18 seats were filled. For the last seat neither U.S.-backed New Zealand nor Russia-backed Yugoslavia gained the necessary two-thirds vote. New Zealand broke the jam by withdrawing in favor of Yugoslavia...
...Enabled a relatively small U.S. force to intercept a Jap invasion fleet, win a decisive victory in the Battle of the Coral Sea, thus saving Australia and New Zealand...
...Zealand's highly praised "free" medical system, which costs a subscriber 2½% of his pay, is in trouble. The plan has fostered the best hospitalization system in the world, but it has also fostered profiteering doctors. Allowed to charge for every patient they see, a few greedy doctors do literally that: charge as much for a glimpse as for a complete physical. Others rush patients through their offices at the rate of twelve an hour. Some New Zealand lawmakers are considering putting doctors on flat salaries. But some experts think they would do better to adopt Britain...