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...Rumanian Paradox. Still clinging to the Germans is Rumania's Dictator Ion Antonescu. But the Rumanians' sickening losses in Russia have aroused violent opposition. Jails are crammed with 200,000 political prisoners...
With these characteristic words, Harold Le( )Cla(i)r(e)* I ekes throws a drawerful of gantlets into a gallery of faces and squares off. In his 350 pages Curmudgeon Ickes knots himself up in every possible variety and paradox of his personality, exposing himself mercilessly to his own doubletalk. To discourage any who might feel sympathy for America's most vilified celebrity, Ickes never fails to put his worst foot forward, to beg for brickbats ("Me? I don't mind.") Few readers will be deceived by this psychological strategy. Out of these ungainly, ranting pages...
...soon to plumb the Japanese mind. But as South Pacific fighting went into its second spring, one paradox grew plain: though the Allied position in the past year had improved infinitely, Japan's position was not correspondingly worse. The fighting had only taken up the slack in battle lines. Now each adversary had a firm foothold. The next blow would be to the other's body. The race to assemble the requisite sea and air power probably would determine where and when that blow would fall...
...Soviet Union; Russia again trades it for U.S. war goods which she needs to fight Japan's allies in Europe. Some day Malayan rubber from Japan might roll again down Singapore's wide streets under the U.S. flag. Meanwhile, the world had another example of a paradox of international war and commerce: how to trade, at second hand, with the enemy...
Confusion's Masterpieces. Theodore Spencer, youthful Harvard instructor and poet (The Paradox in the Circle), is after bigger game than snarks. In Shakespeare and the Nature of Man, written with high intelligence and clarity, Spencer shows Shakespeare as the archetype of his age, in Elizabethan literature what Drake was to the Elizabethan navy-a symbol of England's emergence into the status of a world power. The Elizabethans, says Spencer, found themselves in a social and moral dilemma. For hundreds of years men had lived and died in a world in which "order [was] behind everything." Man, animals...