Word: insularity
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...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...
...Church the rich monastic properties which Henry VIII had shared out. When the "old" service returned to the parish churches, London was strewn with antipapist pamphlets and broadsheets; men gathered together for armed rebellion. And many an Englishman who had welcomed , a return to the old ways hesitated in insular fear when he saw, on Mary's one hand, the long-absent papal legate and, on the other, her new husband, Prince Philip of Spain...
...High Commissioner of the Pacific Trust Territory (southwest Pacific islands administered by the U.S. as trustee for the United Nations): Frank Elbert Midkiff, 65. Born in Anna, Ill. Midkiff went to Hawaii at 25 to take a job as an English teacher and athletic coach at an insular college, stayed on to become a businessman, school principal. His new bailiwick, scattered over an expanse of ocean wider than the U.S., consists of 2,130 small, rainy, tropical islands with a total area of 687 sq. mi. and a total native population of 58,000. The territory's value...
...Hawaii Statehood bill was cleared for early passage by the House when it received approval from the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee...