Word: paradoxity
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Last week soldiers of the Nanking Government were actually fighting the Soviet-financed armies of Communist bandits in Central China at the very moment when diplomats of the Nanking Government were exchanging documents of recognition with the Soviet union. This paradox was accepted in China with complacence. Chinese cheered up. A caucus of the Kuomintang (Government "People's Party") at Nanking oozed bland contentment. By three almost unanimous smash votes the Kuomintang urged the Government: 1) to "encourage and intensify" the Chinese boycott of Japanese goods?this boycott having furnished the specific excuse cited by Japan for her bombardment...
They were a people of violent contrasts, of sudden and unpremeditated changes, who welcomed paradox with open arms and accepted the contradiction of life on its own terms. Sir Walter Raleigh could violate his own word, giving a whole town to slaughter, and yet celebrate the power of death in a peroration of romantic fervor. Marston was a satirist of brutal and unscrupulous force, who saw the inside of a London jail before retiring to the ruminative dullness of a provincial pastorage. The dramatist who celebrated a ruinous love in Egypt could see only fraud and treachery in the heroes...
There is, however, the usual Chinese paradox. Shantung is a maritime province and Han is a model governor but he has never held Shantung's vital seaports, Tsingtao and Chefoo...
...powerful control over the standards of modern advertising. Too often newspapers have though it possible to maintain a "courageous" editorial policy while at the same time maintaining an advertising and business policy that would stand little scrutiny; too few of the larger journals of the country have recognized the paradox of arguing vigorously in one column for industrial and political idealism and in the adjacent column ballyhooing an article by false advertisement or falsifying news to suit the caprice of an advertiser...
...Paradox: although France holds the largest store of monetary gold ever amassed in Europe, and although five-sevenths of the world's new gold is being mined in the British Empire, both French and British statesmen are agreed that they can pay their debts to the U. S. only to the extent that Germany pays them Reparations (see below). They cannot (i.e. will not) pay out of the stupendous gold stocks they hold and produce. The Allies seized from beaten Germany such of her colonies as produced gold. Today the Fatherland simply does not produce the bright metal...