Word: insularity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Humanitarians & Bureaucrats. For more than half a century, under various parties, insular New Zealand, with its butter and mutton economy, has been an experimental laboratory for welfare statism. Today, social security-paid for by a flat 5% tax on all private and corporate income -includes state-paid old-age pensions, unemployment benefits, medical and hospital care. Industry is heavily regulated, trade unionism and industrial arbitration compulsory. Liberal and conservative governments have shared in the vast social experiments. But ever since the Labor Party took office in 1935, what had begun as a humanitarian drive gradually ossified into bureaucratic socialism...
...then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return...
...study and teaching of history and geography of the sea and ocean areas of the earth and their affect on commerce, communication, and the spread of culture." Emphasis will be placed on the study of security and progress of the United States in view of the mid-oceanic and insular position of North America relative to other lands...
...Canada that the Fathers of Confederation had planned would finally be rounded out this week. Neighboring Newfoundland, which had gone its insular, independent way since John Cabot discovered it in 1497, was joining up as a tenth province. In St. John's and in Ottawa, ceremonies would mark...
...prewar population of some 7,000,000 has now hit the 9,000,000 mark. The new millions, reversing the Teutonic movement that for decades pressed eastwards, come from the once-great pockets of German population in East Europe. Impoverished, rootless, and angry with the world, they present smug, insular Bavaria with a screaming problem of psychological and physical adjustment. They need jobs, housing, security...