Word: intention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians, who had done most of the post-World War II political grabbing, were taking the worst verbal beating from delegates intent on restraining power politics. The big question in London was: will the Russians take it long enough to get used to it? The Russian methods were still rude and crude, but close observers detected no sign that the Russian delegation would pull...
...squarely on the fence. It saluted the idea of a collective world-up to a point. But in the conduct of Assembly business and the incessant maneuvering which went on behind the scenes, not even the Russians gave any more naked demonstrations than did Jimmy Byrnes of his intent to use the veto whenever necessary to protect U.S. prerogatives. The vigorous U.S. fight to get three of the six nonpermanent Security Council seats for the New World, two of them for her immediate neighbors, was plain power politics...
...Navy could still win a partial victory with a compromise guaranteeing that its own air arm be kept inviolate. Said one Navy man: "The Army is strong for a separate air force, Nimitz is strong for air power. Those two positions are not far removed, are they?" Army airmen intent on getting all air power (except Navy carrier-based craft) under one head, would answer, "Yes, they...
...declared intent to internationalize the atom "and all other major weapons adaptable to mass destruction" did not end atomic nationalism. It strongly survived among President Truman's military advisers, who resumed their support of the highly nationalistic May-Johnson control bill. The British did not miss the point...
...then Congress was suddenly and humbly intent on learning about atomic power, was sweating at the very thought of legislating about it. The Committee on Atomic Energy of the Senate started an A-B-C course in nuclear physics, planned to tour the Oak Ridge project in Tennessee. In the House, 60 Congressmen hurried to hear lectures by atomic scientists half their age, listened in absolute stillness. At week's end it was evident that there would be no legislation on atomic power for a while-perhaps months. Congress was starting all over again...