Word: intention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...possibility of formal solidification of the Madrid-Buenos Aires Axis is increased by the presence in Argentina of a Spanish mission, headed by Tomas Suner, the intent and probable outcome of which is to secure economic assistance for Franco's bleeding government. Though neither country as yet possesses the economic or material attributes of a first rate power, Argentina, at least, has the potential capacity for an extended and effective military effort...
...season's oddest bit of casting is Pat O'Brien as an art expert employed by a stuffy museum. One night he barges drunkenly into the museum's chaste lobby with a boozy breath and every indication of an intent to wreck the joint. Has he lost his mind? More likely, he is being framed by the mysterious gang of forgers who hope to snatch the museum's loan collection of masterpieces...
Three nights later he used the A.A.F.'s 39th anniversary dinner as a sounding board for foreign listeners. Rising up in the Hotel Statler's glittering ballroom in a cream-colored jacket, he gave a brief earnest of the U.S. postwar intent: "The U.S. wants no power, territory or reparations. All it wants is a just peace...
Control of fissionable material, facilities, mines, research and applications will be vested in a five-man commission-civilians all. Chief amendment won by the House: the death penalty for those who give away atomic information if there is clear "intent to injure...
...Month Club's choice for August and, according to the publisher, an "epic in the grand tradition of great fiction." It may be less expansively described as a half-sympathetic, half-scornful portrait of the Icelandic peasant mind, done with broad "epic" touches and special political intent. For Author Halldór Laxness uses his fine portrait, which is drawn in almost Holbein-like detail, as the text for a two-part sermon on the sins of capitalistic Iceland and the promised blessings of Marxism (he is a member of Iceland's Communist, or so-called United People...