Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stalemate. The hitch did not result from lack of initiative on U.N.'s part. Indeed, the Dutch claimed that U.N.'s Good Offices Committee in Indonesia (made up of an American, an Australian and a Belgian) was pushing too hard and too fast. Under the truce agreement reached last January, the Dutch and the Republicans were supposed to work out plans for a federal United States of Indonesia, to take over sovereign powers...
...break the stalemate, the U.S. and Australian members of the Good Offices Committee whispered a plan of their own, providing for federation by 1949. Republican Premier Mohamed Hatta liked it. But Dutch Acting Governor General Hubertus van Mook refused to consider the plan, told U.S. Committee Member Coert du Bois that he had no business submitting it in the first place. Then the U.S.-Australian plan leaked to the press. The Dutch announced that "in view of the publication of the strictly confidential document*. . . The Netherlands delegation has requested instructions from The Netherlands government." They "discontinued" negotiations "for the time...
Last week Pianist Joyce was far from her new fans. She had gone back home to give a charity concert in the Australian mining town of Boulder, "where my father slaved and died." Some of the home folks still remembered her as a red-haired gamin who used to wheeze out Cherry Ripe on a mouth organ for pennies outside of Boulder's Angel...
...Pianist Percy Grainger to hear her play. Grainger, in turn, fetched the great German Pianist Wilhelm Back-haus, who was touring Australia. When Backhaus said that she must go to Leipzig to study, the miners passed the hat to send her. Now Eileen is looking around for another talented Australian girl who needs help. Says she: "This is a man's world, and a girl needs every break...
...idea for a motion picture which avoids politics, sex, religion, divorce, double beds, drugs, disease, poverty, liquor, Senators, bankers, cigarettes, wealth, Congress, race, economics, art, death, crime, childbirth and accidents (whether by airplane or public carrier); also the villain must not be an American, European, South American, African, Asiatic, Australian, New Zealander, or Eskimo ... No dogs allowed. Apply...