Word: lippmann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the New York Herald Tribune's Columnist Walter Lippmann braved the wrath of his fellow newsmen by advising Harry Truman to pull in his horns and his feet...
...their own towns. "They should join organizations similar to the AVC in which there is an opportunity for frank inspection of current affairs; read newspapers and periodicals carefully to keep abreast of day-to-day developments; and thought-fully follow the writings of objective experts--for examples, Walter Lippmann in the international field. I am especially impressed with the value of political training in institutions like Harvard's Littauer School, for it is too often that America does not gain the services in public office of those with the mental qualifications of make a real contribution...
...times a year, to approve (rarely to reject) the decisions of the Corporation, which is the actual governing body. A sample list of Overseers past and present covers a lot of territory-from Massachusetts' Senator Leverett Saltonstall and San Francisco's Mayor Roger Lapham to Columnist Walter Lippmann and Poet Robert Frost...
American criticism has been more violent, if anything, than that of the English and French, with the most telling blows coming from Brooks Atkinson and Walter Lippmann. In a series of three articles, Atkinson, whose dispatches from China pinpointing the treachery and rottenness of the Kuomintang were among the most notable jobs of newspaper reporting of the past year, has assailed the Russians from all sides, cultural, political, and moral. If Lippmann is not as liberal as Atkinson, at least he is as fair-mindeed, and his interpretation of Molotov's speech constitutes the most damaging attack yet sustained...
Whether Russia's foreign policy is as sinister as the reading Mr. Lippmann gives it, only time can tell. All that is discernible now is that Russia is rapidly losing her friends in the West and thereby inexorably reducing her chances for any real understanding with the United States, Great Britain, and France. If Russia is sincerely desirous of world peace, but continues in her present policy of confusion and mystory, she will not only find herself friendless, but faced with a world in which the men of good will have joined forces with Winston Churchill and William C. Bullitt...