Word: visional
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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...
...majority in 1932, his 60.2% majority in 1936, it appeared that in 1940 he had received a vote of less confidence. On him therefore rested a greater moral responsibility for the welfare of the nation as a whole, just as in a world at war, more depended on his vision than ever before...
...year Mein Kampf was published (1925) he began "his desperate, singlehanded, 14-year struggle for England's soul and power of vision" by writing three little-known essays. In Shall We All Commit Suicide? he warned that in Germany "science [had gone] mad in the hands of demon-ridden masses." In Mass Effects in Modern Life he warned that mass production found its political form in the Bolshevik state. In Fifty Years Hence Churchill forecast the rise of fascist states whose power would far exceed the intelligence of their rulers, whose intelligence would far exceed their morals...