Word: paradoxically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...time of paradox: the nation, set for its eighth year of high food production, would nevertheless face many a month of food shortages. There was joy in the homes of returned soldiers; there was grief for those still dying in the Pacific...
...doctrines that 1) heads of states are immune, and 2) their subordinates are immune because they merely obeyed orders. Said Jackson: "There is more than a suspicion that this idea [of immunity] is a relic of the doctrine of the divine right of kings. ... We do not accept the paradox that legal responsibility should be the least where power is the greatest." Jackson fell back on Britain's 17th Century jurist, Chief Justice Sir Edward Coke, and his declaration to King James I that a king is "under...