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Wendell Willkie was a walking, talking political paradox: he was trying to make a non-partisan campaign. Convinced that he will get the basic 16,500,000 regular Republican votes anyway, he struck again & again into Democratic strongholds, into areas that had never seen a Presidential nominee of any stripe, traveled over rusty railspurs that had never held a passenger train. Correspondents agreed that, as a campaigner, he was a terrific in-&-outer. Groups of a half-dozen he wholly charmed; with 300 he was excellent; with 10,000 he was fair; faced by more than 20,000 people...
...Nazi invasion, the problem was to save a nation torn between two powerful internal forces whose factional interests meant more to them than France. The man who forced unity upon these conflicting groups and saved France was Armand Jean du Plessis Cardinal Richelieu. His career is the greatest paradox in paradoxical French politics. A prince of the church, Richelieu revived and carried through the domestic and foreign policies of Protestant Henri IV ("Paris is worth a Mass!"). In league with the greatest living Protestant king, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Catholic Richelieu broke the power of the greatest Catholic state...
...paradox at all to say that peace makes war and that war makes peace...
...Negro females, 5.3% white males, 3.2% Negro males. Knocked west was a longtime maxim: the Negro suffers from racial susceptibility to t.b. Nevertheless the Negro tuberculosis death rate is still five times that of the white race, possibly due to lower living standards and less medical attention. This apparent paradox showed the impossibility of estimating t.b. among the living from t.b. mortality tables-a conclusion that might account for Dr. Reuling's Fair findings...
...apparent paradox in Brazilian policy is explained by the fact that whereas in Italy and Germany autarchy was a means to external aggrandizement, in Brazil it was a means to internal development. Massive, unwieldy, naturally rich but undeveloped, Brazil was in danger of falling apart by centrifugal force when Getulio Vargas took it over...