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...Pious Paradox. Author Gayn devotes most of the latter part of Journey from the East to the new China and its new leaders. He believes that Chiang is the only man under whom China can achieve unity...
...paradox is that these low-priced textiles do not exist mainly because OPA has succeeded in keeping prices down. But OPA's victory has also been the consumers' loss, because manufacturers of "low-end" goods, between soaring labor and raw materials costs on one side and inflexible ceilings on their prices on the other, found themselves squeezed out of profits. Result: they largely quit civilian production-and "upgraded" the rest. Half of production went into military orders. The other half became "higher-quality" merchandise-sometimes a matter of adding as little as an extra color to a fabric...
...Corps here say that we French are now only little boys. That is a view we cannot accept. To Frenchmen, you Americans are still the Americans of 1918. But Americans no longer regard us as the victorious Frenchmen of 1918. Yet we are the same France today. If this paradox is recognized, we can resume the friendly relationship to which we aspire. Today Frenchmen are suffering-and so we are very sensitive." A French resistance leader, recently arrived in London, said: "Some of us could not understand the Allies' policy in North Africa. To us who have worked...
...expert Herbert Feis it was once said "he looks like Harpo and talks like Karl Marx." The Harpo crack is an exaggeration, the Karl part a misunderstanding. Feis, a Hoover holdover, loves fast conversation and the intellectual paradox, but, stripped of provocative verbiage, his opinions would be generally acceptable. Never a New Dealer, he belongs to none of Washington's "ideological" factions...
Later in the week, when ex-Congressional Tax Expert Fred Vinson, now stuck with the job of Economic Stabilizer, appeared to urge the same program, he submitted figures that dramatically underlined this Administration paradox...