Word: lippmann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Critic's Teeth. Liebling has decided prejudices of his own. "The Sun" he says, "is a suburban paper published "on the island of Manhattan . . . as perfectly preserved as the corpse of Lenin." Liebling's impression of Pundit Walter Lippmann: "Nowtherefore and whereas and ahem." PM's Max Lerner writes editorials "like an elephant treading the dead body of a mouse into the floor of its cage." Liebling often rags the Chicago Tribune and Bertie McCormick, but wonders if it "isn't like punching the heavy bag. The Colonel is in the direct line of Dickens...
...circulation is currently at an all-time peak, but is still pretty small. But among the 20,000 people who pay a stiff $1.25 a copy are many key legislators, editors, and Government officials. Pundit Walter Lippmann is devoting 14 columns to a rebuttal of an article in Foreign Affairs signed by "X," who is actually the State Department's Chief Policy Planner George F. Kennan (TIME, Sept...
...giving the Red Army, rather than Marxism, the credit for Russia's present powerful position, Pundit Lippmann was on debatable ground-and had failed to note that the Red Army was built by Russia's Marxist rulers. And did Lippmann mean to say that Stalin's objectives were no wider than Peter's old-fashioned imperialism? It seemed clear to many people that Soviet Russia was a new-fashioned force...
State Department officials privately pointed out that Lippmann's criticism was directed chiefly at a doctrine, the Truman Doctrine, since supplemented by a policy, the "Marshall plan," which was in fact something more than "hold the line and hope for the best." But Lippmann had opened up a wide line of attack, and it came at a moment when U.S. policy was undergoing a critical test...
Embracing all other crises was the crisis of the U.S. policy of containing Communism. Last week, Pundit Walter Lippmann asked the disturbing question whether such a policy was feasible at all (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). For at the bottom of almost every phase of crisis was the Soviet Union. From the heartland of Eurasia she irradiated the world along a vast circumference with waves of disruptive power...