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...Paradox explained: In Germany anyone & everyone who professes Communist doctrines or votes for candidates sponsored by that party is accounted a Communist...
Sparse as is the disclosed information surrounding Mr. Wickizer's resolution, there is yet enough to make clear that he ignored his first duty, which was to resign. Thus he would have avoided the most ingenious and it would seem, most unpleasant--paradox of being ex officio in fact, though not in name. His resolution to be a tongue for every head of the student hydra is ambitious and pathetic...
...They found, finally, this seeming paradox: that Rear Admiral Frank H. Brumby had been demonstrated unfit to command the Control Force* and should be removed, yet that the rescue plans he approved and supervised "were logical, intelligent, and were diligently executed with good judgment and the greatest possible expedition...
...trial and that the equivocal findings did not justify censuring him. While the subject of this discussion steamed out of Balboa, Panama, on his flagship, the cruiser Camden, to oversee Control Force maneuvers at the Perlas Islands last week, observers studied the court of inquiry's alleged paradox to see why it should have puzzled the Navy Department...
...posse, with Sheriff America at its head, to hunt down the outlaw Mars. Meanwhile America is preparing a great navy building program with one hand while with the other she pens with dove's quill resolutions for Pan-American Conferences and Franco-American treaties of amity. Meanwhile the paradox at home has an international twin; only one obstacle of size stands in the way of a multilateral treaty outlawing war among the great powers. That obstacle is the League of Nations...