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...time of paradox: the nation, set for its eighth year of high food production, would nevertheless face many a month of food shortages. There was joy in the homes of returned soldiers; there was grief for those still dying in the Pacific...
...doctrines that 1) heads of states are immune, and 2) their subordinates are immune because they merely obeyed orders. Said Jackson: "There is more than a suspicion that this idea [of immunity] is a relic of the doctrine of the divine right of kings. ... We do not accept the paradox that legal responsibility should be the least where power is the greatest." Jackson fell back on Britain's 17th Century jurist, Chief Justice Sir Edward Coke, and his declaration to King James I that a king is "under...
...hour week. Any decrease in hours of work, he said, must bring with it a decrease in the national income which the country can ill afford. One of the primary aims of the 30 hour week, according to Professor Haberler and his colleagues, is to remedy the paradox of "poverty amidst plenty," but said the former Austrian economist, to eliminate the plenty is not the solution
...American paradox of political democracy accompanied by discrimination against minorities was sharply criticized by Embree. In protesting against the segregation of Negro soldiers, he called attention to the fact that "we have set up a dual system of armies to defend a unified democracy...
...days after the shipping embargo, President Roosevelt came to the support of Hull's action. Said the President: "This situation presents the extraordinary paradox of the growth of Nazi-Fascist in fluence and the increasing application of Nazi-Fascist methods in a country ... at the very time that those forces of aggression are drawing ever closer in final defeat and judgment in Europe and elsewhere in the world. . . . The Argentine Government has repudiated solemn inter-American obligations...