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… King had a distinguished naval record in the Second World War, being awarded a DSC after escorting a convoy to northern Russia. … Association, participated in demonstrations against the Vietnam War and apartheid South Africa, and wrote for the …
Type: Biography
… been a contender for the post. Because of the Second World War a general election was not held until September 1943, … not to oppose British membership. A significant step towards diversification was a limited free trade agreement … part in a decision to support the United States in the Vietnam War. Holyoake made his government’s stand an issue …
Type: Biography
… Mackenzie 's Chronicles of the NZEF. In June 1917 he was awarded the DCM for single-handedly capturing a German … the depression particularly distressing. He was brought forward fast in the party. By 1920 he was president of the … students with his defence of American intervention in Vietnam), was interviewed on television, and was awarded an …
Type: Biography
… Methodist household, his returned-soldier father a stalwart of the labour movement and sometime Labour Party … siblings ‘were better clad, were better sheltered and kept warmer than many of our contemporaries’. 2 The local dairy … journal Comment (1959–63 and 1978–82), contributor to Vietnam War teach-ins, and public lecturer, he established …
Type: Biography
… and this uneasiness affected party activists’ attitudes towards him. It took several years before he established … the party’s opposition to New Zealand’s involvement in the Vietnam War. Moreover, a downturn in the economy in 1967 widened the …
Type: Biography