Word: vision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place, I hardly need to press this point of view. The very history of the Mississippi Valley has proved that the people who dwell here in the South and West have been true exponents of American greatness. They recognized that the destiny of this country lay in an expanding vision. To that view we owe the way of life we now applaud...
During all the dark years of World War I, Oswald Spengler in a dank Munich tenement suffered from endless headache while he composed Der Untergang des Abendlandes. During the '20s, readers in seven languages suffered likewise in the effort to follow its vast erudition, cosmic vision, Teutonic mysticism. Americans read it as The Decline of the West. Because its title suggests doom & disintegration, and because it was the gospel of the Nazi intellectuals, The Decline of the West is perhaps the most misunderstood of the influential books of the 20th Century. Last week a U. S. disciple of Spengler...
...Britain was not to be put off. The small islands might be overwhelmed by superior force, but not by lack of readiness or confusion under propaganda. They might be surprised by gas or a new weapon, but not by the fact of an attack. The vision of one old veteran, who knows a lot about waging and gauging war, was undimmed. On behalf of his people Lloyd George wrote...
...Alquen of Das Schwarze Korps, organ of Hitler's Schutzstaffel, discovered that Emperor Ulrich was none other than Adolf Hitler, proclaimed Poet Thomasset a new prophet of National Socialism. Reviewing The Miraculous Victory as an inspired revelation, he added a prophecy of his own: Thomasset's "vision of the future . . . may come more quickly now than Thomasset thought...
...Poet Thomasset had a vision and from it emerged a book: The Miraculous Victory of Emperor Ulrich. An immaculate ruler and spiritual descendant of Parsifal, Emperor Ulrich liberated France by crushing her in a war. He made Brittany the centre of a Celtic group of provinces, including her "racial sister," Ireland. Alsace-Lorraine, Champagne and Burgundy he placed "directly under the protection of the Holy (German) Empire." Italy was assigned to "protect and guide" the provinces of southeast France. The Basques and Catalans on both sides of the Pyrenees were united and made independent. A "Great United Kingdom...