Word: intention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Principles. Both Winston Churchill and Cordell Hull, before Japan entered World War II, promised post-war reconsideration of the Western world's claims on China. But the U.S. and Britain, intent on fighting the Axis, have neglected the psychological front among a billion Asiatics. China is fighting as a free nation, but India, demanding freedom, is being kept from it by wartime realities and political confusion (see col. 3). Chinese Scholar Lin Yutang last week gave one appraisal of the situation: "If it appears to the Asiatics and the South Americans and the people of the countries subjected...
...with four crisp white suits, gathered up his books. If there had been time, he would have made his broadcast, a final appeal to America-an appeal for understanding from the world's last great bastion of freedom. But there was not time: The British Raj, intent on crushing the second Gandhi civil-disobedience campaign in World War II, was mad and tough...
...Deliberate intent not to instruct not train San Franciscans in evacuation from their hilly, water-bound peninsula...
Itagaki was too young and too obscure for a recorded part in the Russo-Japanese War. But he shared with the army the pride of remembrance, the deep intent to complete the conquest of Asia which the Russo-Japanese War had merely begun. Brooding upon a Russia still in Asia, a U.S. thrusting into the near Pacific through the Philippines, he began his rise...
Both the sincerity of America's war effort and of our intent to abandon isolationism will be tested by the November Congressional elections, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt stated before approximately 100 students in Winthrop House yesterday at a closed meeting of the Harvard Council On Post-War Problems...