Word: paradoxe
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Infinite Puzzle. This seemed no paradox to Harry Truman. But the problem went deeper. The world, obviously, would not accept a U.S. trusteeship. The Germans had started the race for the bomb; the Japanese had been experimenting, too. Now the Russians started working furiously. Any other nation with the inclination and the money could get into the race, and some of them doubtless would...
...Paradox...
...Spruille Braden, in his big person and his big ideals, embodied the great paradox confronting the U.S. in Latin America. The U.S. officially, and Braden personally, propose to uphold the U.S. idea of liberty in all the Western Hemisphere. Yet the U.S., as the greatest of western nations, and Braden as its servant, must recognize that sovereignty-especially sovereignty below the Rio Grande-is sometimes more precious than liberty...
...knows more about U.S. production problems than any man, bluntly warned : "You can't draw any optimism from this report in the light of management-labor problems. It's a little silly to talk about reconversion with the strike problem [see NATIONAL AFFAIRS]. We have the paradox of working hard to get plants open for civilian production, then finding them closed down. . . . The answer . . . will have to come in two or three weeks to keep from upsetting reconversion entirely." To tie up the ends of reconversion (keep tabs on inventories and scarce materials, etc.), President Truman created...
...Tragic Paradox...