Word: vision
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Current diplomats appear to have forgotten completely their duties as guardians of international security. Lacking the broad vision of Kellogg, deprived of the stimulating leadership of Briand, their eyes are blinded by selfish nationalism to the pleas of all classes for peace. Saito's uncompromising demands for parity, Benes' threat of war in the Chamber of the League, Laval's antagonizing oratory, are all evidences of the failure of current diplomats to grasp to broader demands of statesmanship. Indeed, until they do learn to view the narrow policies of egoistic nationalism in the light of world harmony, international conferences...
...Majesty as he knelt in prayer. The image of the mighty Ancestor appeared vivid and distinct to the living Emperor. The spirit signified by gesture that the enthronemert of His Majesty is known to and approved by all his ancestors who sat on the Throne in Peking. The vision vanished as swiftly as it came...
...families. Before long ?90,000 had poured in. It was decided that the surplus should be used not only for a Scott monument but for the advancement of polar research. Professor Frank Debenham, Cambridge University geographer who had traveled with Scott, had an idea that became a vision...
From this you will see that the vision of me hanging around a barnyard with a bucket in my hand waiting for some old dairy cow to drop a calf is rather ridiculous. Certainly there is nothing in such a picture to impress one with the purity of our product or the desirability of taking such a mess into one's peritoneal cavity...
...Duce, once established, sent Prince Caetani to Washington as Ambassador. In two years he exhausted every means of trying to make U. S. citizens see his own vision of Fascism as a regime giving Italy an imposed, Augustan and salutary peace...