Word: insularity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only seven years after the barons of England forced King John to sign their Magna Charta, the freemen of Hungary made their own King Andrew sign a comparable document known as the Golden Bull, the first charter of human rights on the European continent. But Hungary, unlike insular England, was set like a bastion between the conflicting civilizations of East and West, and under the strain of constant warring, the rights guaranteed by the bull and the crown had to be fought for again and again. Democracy as it is known in most of the West today has never found...
...blessed with "a vision of the world transformed." He said that the main difference between the 1930's and the 1950's is that the present generation recognizes that "we are in fact involved in the world," and it therefore should not be "surprising if we have become less insular...
...Eden government has so far had little success in settling labor disputes, and the National Coal Board has been forced to back down in its attempt to bring in Italians to help Britain mine its own coal. "There is no traditional background for the employment of foreigners," huffed the insular National Union of Mine Workers...
...events of the last two days show that England has at last given up the policy of insular security. In a treaty with the defense community, the British government has pledged an armored division to serve in the proposed European army. Air force units will also be given. Although the treaty does not make the United Kingdom a member of EDC, it provides for co-operation that is so close and complete that there is little difference. Some French statesmen have indicated that they feel Britain has not promised enough. This view is hardly realistic, however. By making the present...
...Senato Insular Affairs Committee of the 83rd Congress is considering the Hawailan Statehood Bill. In this year, more than in any other year since 1903, when the first bid for statehood was made, Congressional approval of the Statehood Bill is likely. Laxity at such a critical time as this would be foolish and would exhibit a direct abuse of the efforts made these previous years by the supporters of statehood for Hawali, who in 1950 voted 82,788 to 27,109 in favor of a state constitution drafted by elected representatives...