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...Plant & a Paradox. The business of saving the world progressed slowly. Yet the consensus on the past week in Moscow...
Molotov and Bidault represented the two extreme positions on the matter- and an instructive paradox. Russia, which calls itself a federation of 16 individual republics, demanded a relatively unified Germany; France, which has one of Europe's most closely centralized administrations, demanded a loose German federation. The issue was not really one of political forms: Russia wanted to curry favor with the Germans, and France in accordance with her traditional policy wanted to weaken Germany...
Even readers who stick with Author Cahill to the end will never unravel the whole mystery of what happened to Professor Teigne, but they will get 200,000 words-now stimulating, now baffling-about Chinese art, philosophy, politics and paradox, mixed in with gang fights, raids, a U.S. hero and heroine and hissing Japanese spies. Novelist Cahill's polar north lies somewhere between André Malraux's Man's Fate and Cartoonist Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates, but lacks the invigorating climate of either...
...Goat. The paradox of the year was the stock market. The big bull market, which had been rampaging upwards for four years, showed no signs of tiring as the year opened. Through the steel, auto, coal and thousands of little strikes, the market went serenely onward & upward, in a sort of economic Indian rope trick, as profits-and production-went from bad to worse in the first half of the year (see chart). So many little people rushed in to buy that the Stock Exchange spent $750,000 in newspaper and magazine ads to warn the lambs away from...
...This ... is a basic paradox: one moment money is the chief inducement to produce good programs; the next, it is the chief inducement to produce bad ones. In any case, money always has the last word...