Word: visione
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Curtin has a vision of the Australia he intends to see emerge from war into the new Pacific world: industrialized, socialized, galvanized into growth to at least twice its present population. He wants to see a grown-up daughter country, bound to the mother Empire in innumerable ways, but undisputed mistress of her own abode, and free to choose her friends as she thinks best. A continuing council of Pacific nations means more to Curtin than a resurrection of the Singapore naval base...
...Against Many? For Mr. King, in his 70th year, this meeting will present both an opportunity and a crisis. It is an opportunity for him to convert the other Dominions to his vision of the future: an all-embracing system of world security resting on the support of all states, large and small. In pledging Canada to such an ideal, and placing that ideal ahead of Canada's obligations to the Commonwealth, Mr. King set his Dominion out as the champion of small states and against a world dominated by a few great powers...
...Members of De Gaulle's Committee do not openly criticize the President, but delegates to the [Consultative] Assembly . . . are vocal in their indignation at what is called 'opportunist policy' and lack of vision and statesmanship...
Brazil's classic is more grim than the roughest U.S. realistic novel, with only Moby Dick, which it somewhat resembles in diffuseness and prose, matching its somber vision of life...
...your son all success in your common task of overcoming his injury; and overcome it you can if you refuse to be defeated. He was not afraid when he gave his eyes for his country. You must never let him be afraid while he is getting his vision back through other faculties...