Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems to me most grievous that at this time we can do little else but wish the Poujadists successes in their horrible campaign. As Goya said, "The dream of reason produces monsters." So has it been for France, the homeland of reason...
...dream thus analyzed in black and white raised more questions than even the commission could answer. Essential to the scheme was the incorporation in South Africa of the three enclaves formed by the British protectorates of Bechuanaland, Basutoland and Swaziland, a fate that the natives of those protectorates strongly resist. To clear the black areas, thousands of white farmers would have to be moved from their farms and settled in white areas. If the black men still preferred Johannesburg to the bush, they could be forced into the national homes only with troops-an action that might well start...
Total apartheid has long been more of a racist ideal than a specific program even for Nationalist politicians. Faced with the cost and impracticality of such a dream, it remains to be seen whether, for all their violent talk, they are prepared...
...British Empire and the British Commonwealth and the British dream are not rotten or dying or disintegrating. Perhaps TIME (March 12) can think only in terms of guns, dollar balances, wealth, but in the terms of history the British Commonwealth is writing a page in history of a greatness never conceived by man before . . . Let the frustrations of foreign ingratitude . . . not blind TIME in honoring its true friends. The mighty British Commonwealth and Empire has experienced these things for centuries...
...suddenly perilous position in the Middle East. Reports of Egyptian officers training in Poland, of heavy shipments of Soviet arms brought renewed doubts that the stubbornly held policy of declining an arms race was serving its purpose. With Communist arms, Premier Abdel Gamal Nasser's vaunted dream of creating an Arab empire to thrust the West from the Middle East and North Africa as well, seemed suddenly pore reality than paper threat...