Word: lippmann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under "the threat of a Russian-American war arising out of conflict in the borderland . . . the British, the French and all the other Europeans see that they are placed between the hammer and the anvil." Their real aim now, said Lippmann, is to extricate themselves from the Russian-American conflict...
Peter's Heir. How, Lippmann wondered, could the Administration ever have developed such "an unworkable policy?" He believed it was "because Mr. X has neglected even to mention the fact that the Soviet Union is the successor of the Russian Empire and that Stalin is not only the heir of Marx and Lenin but of Peter the Great and the Czars of all the Russias...
...fact that the men in the Kremlin believe in the ideology of Marxism is, to Lippmann, simply a corollary to the fact that they are rulers of the Russian empire...
...Kremlin's ambitions could be well defined, said Lippmann, because they were historically imperialist Russian ambitions: a pan-Slav affiliation extending to the Oder River, the Alps, the Adriatic and the Aegean. It was the Red Army, not Marxist ideology, Lippmann argued, which had placed Russia in control of virtually all the territory she coveted...
Quid pro Quo. This week Lippmann was halfway through his thesis. The quid pro quo for the Red Army's withdrawal, he indicated, would be withdrawal of U.S. and British troops from Europe. Then it would be possible (he implied) to establish a balance of power,* and, based on that traditional kind of diplomacy, establish some real hope of peace...