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...United States, as the leader of the Western coalition, the present Soviet policy offers an almost insoluble paradox. If we withdraw our present objections to trade between the two camps of Europe, we face the unpleasant prospect of seeing our potential enemies materially strengthened. On the other hand, if we object to East-West trade which would obviously be beneficial to our allies, we will see even a further increase in European charges that the United States is meddluing in domestic politics that do not concern it; ultimately we might awaken to find that a once-strong alliance had crumbled...
This eloquent book bears a Danish boy's precocious witness to the hard scriptural paradox that he who loses his life shall find it. Seventeen and in love, Kim knocks around the Baltic as an apprentice on a three-masted schooner, fighting for peace within, while World War II rages around him. Soon this unschooled lad, who can write so tenderly to his sweetheart ("May you sleep as sweetly as a water lily on a pond"), is looking into the hearts of others-the cough-racked Finnish soldier riding a blacked-out bus near the front, the old Danish...
...Arnold suggested that the Government should either have provided Dr. Peters and all loyalty suspects with the protection of trial court procedures, or else simply fired them offhand with no public hearings and no public disgrace. "Is it your point," asked new Associate Justice John Marshall Harlan, pinpointing the paradox, "that having set its hand at the plow in choosing a hearing method, the Government is then stuck with a due process hearing, and nothing short of a due process hearing?" Replied Arnold: "I wish I had said it that briefly. That is precisely my point...
Citing what he termed a "curious paradox," O'Brian said that the government's security program "instead of promoting a sense of security among our citizens has spread doubt, suspicion, and mistrust and a sense of insecurity among those in government service...
Science, speaking in its usual language of paradox, has spent most of the last century revealing terror in the tiny things of life. The germ theory of disease probably drove to the grave a lot of genteel old ladies ignored by the streptococcus. By the time mankind grew accustomed to bacillae, American physicists sent some explosive atoms to Hiroshima, giving the world a new source of frenzy. With his new Atoms for Peace, David O. Woodbury has at last sought out the scientists who are working with peaceable, tractable atoms, making significant discoveries that have largely escaped journalistic attention...