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...nation that is fed with this kind of journalese during the war will be expected to drink the cup of peace after the war. That is the paradox of winning both the war and the peace. All talk about fighting the enemy governments, and not the enemy peoples, is being choked in an attempt to whip the American public into a psychological tantrum that will inspire them to make great sacrifices at home and do deeds of unsurpassed daring on the battle fronts...
This is the paradox which has nurtured the hate racket. But it is based on the assumption that the only way to make American democracy worth fighting for is to blacken the way of life of every nation which threatens democracy. This assumption is false. The American people do not have to be doped with the adrenaline of hate journalism. All they need is the facts: the facts about the strength of their own forces, about the actual danger which is facing them. If the newspapers and magazines of the country would spend less effort on giving them unnecessary excuses...
...Finnegans Wake naturalism and the artist himself all but disappear; the book is a shimmering death-dance of chameleon-like symbols; an attempt at nothing less than a complete serio-comic history of human consciousness-in Levin's neat phrase, a "doomsday book," culminating in a Phoenician paradox of dissolution and resurrection...
...Government last week was engaged in an undercover struggle with the British Empire to correct the wildest paradox of the war: gold, which nobody really needs, is still being mined at peak rates, while other crucially scarce metals are made even scarcer by the tightening pinch in mine labor, equipment, shipping space...
Schuman ascribes part of the present chaos to the paradox that the world is an economic unit but a political jigsaw puzzle. "Anarchy in world politics," he says, "is incompatible with unity and order in world business and world civilization. One or the other must go." He also sees an even more important fact-that "the central issue of World War II is not the issue of whether the world of the 20th Century shall achieve political unity. It is the issue of who will build that unity, on what foundations and for what purposes...