Word: visione
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: Congratulations on the article of the year -the one about Niemoller. . . . You gave us proof that there is something in the spirit of man far greater than himself that will never give up the vision of freedom, decency and kindness...
This is one probability of a battle to the finish on the side of Britain. There are others, equally disturbing, which the President chose to forget. He preferred instead to conjure up a rosy vision of the post-war future "in our own time and generation" when the world will be peaceful, prosperous, and safe for democracy. Such prophecies are likely to inspire a faintly sickening nostalgia for the good old days of 1917-19, when America was young and innocent. No, Mr. Roosevelt, let's be realistic. Maybe we really will win, and maybe we won't go totalitarian...
...thin-faced, bookish Oxford graduate of 23, working in South Africa under the great liberal imperialist Lord Milner. he had absorbed Milner's vision of the democratic Empire, steadily evolving toward the greater self-government of its various units, releasing the native genius of its different people, and yet unified under the structure of English constitutional law. He saw his years of work for a peaceful, democratic Empire set back by the impact of World War I, in which his only brother was killed. As Lloyd George's secretary during the war, he had worked for the League...
...nominate as Man of the Year the great President whose continued services George Washington refused to preclude to the country by limiting the Presidential tenure to two terms; the President whom the long vision of the Father of his Country foresaw as the "man who on some great emergency shall be deemed universally most capable of serving the public," Franklin Roosevelt...
...charitable a judgment of the man who had just died beneath the camouflaged roof of a cottage near the church. For the grandeur of Neville Chamberlain's failure might be the grandeur of an Empire's fall. And its cause was not grandeur, or even breadth, of vision; its cause was narrowness of mind...