Word: visional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...negotiations between Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Communist leader Mao Tse-tung take place in a land obsessed by the vision of peace and victory. Pressure upon both negotiating parties . . . comes . . . from the very depths of Chinese political consciousness. People are sick to death of war, profiteering, exile, bloodshed and malnutrition. They are entranced by a vision of China in its entirety, handed back to them intact, its industries unravaged by wars of liberation, its sovereignty total and absolute...
...from Canton to the Amur River under a single flag ; possible to irrigate the fields of Hunan with the waters of Szechwan; possible to warm the homes of Shanghai with the coal of Shansi, possible to fuel the trucks of Yünnan with the oil of Sinkiang. The vision is too great, the hope too high for any group or any individual to dare to flout it with impunity...
...four Gospels," and "the practices of the organized Christian Church. These two have little in common besides their name." He traces the decline of the faith from the 4th Century, when it became a national religion under Constantine (who went forth "to slaughter his enemies inspired by the ecstatic vision of a blazing cross") through the Crusades (where "it had become firmly established that fire and rapine were acceptable means of propagating the faith") to the history of modern colonization ("unequal conflict between Christian might and pagan right...
...Government's plans are adaptable, said the Prime Minister. "We hope we're only beginning something that will go on for years." For the expanding capital of a growing country, he added: "What is needed is large vision for development of Ottawa along lines similar to Washington...
Hogs Are Lucky. For Emperor Young, the vision of a transcontinental line was more than just a dream. Through the Alleghany Corp., he has a large block of Missouri Pacific bonds. If he could get the MOP, he would have a line west to Denver-and through MOP's half-control of the Denver & Rio Grande Western, all the way to Salt Lake City. From Salt Lake City to San Francisco runs the Western Pacific, the small but spunky rival of the Southern Pacific (which owns the other half of D. & R. G. W.); Arthur Curtiss James...