Geopolitics
HE solid contribution which the geographer has to make to modern problems of world strategy was illustrated by J. W. M. Fox in the final talk in his series New Zealand in the Pacific from 1YA. Despite Mr. Fox’s over-formal manner and lecture-room phraseology, this was a thought provoking talk. He used "Mackinder’s concept of the "Heartland," the centre of Europe, as the pivot of history, to point up the necessity for such powers beyond the "Rim-land" as Au8gtralia and New Zealand _consolidating and developing their resources for defence. We are so used to hearing of our smugness, complacency, and indifference to world problems that even the dullest among us must be coming to believe that there is something in it. Mr. Fox did not spare New Zealanders in his detailed and reasonable proposals for carrying strategic thought into action. His suggestions for the relief of population problems in the East) by. migration south took account of the fact that this would ‘lower living standards there, but asserted that this would be a lesser evil than those which would follow if New Zealanders réfused to think "globally." The realism of such statements impressed me no less than the compre-
hensiveness of. his exposition.
J. C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 544, 25 November 1949, Page 10
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