Word: lippmann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three hundred and fifty U.S. writers and artists had pooled their dollars and their talents to put out a magazine they could call their own (TIME, July 1). There were salable names among them: Steinbeck, Dos Passos, Lippmann, Hersey, Fadiman, Gropper. The editors boldly promised "stories, experiences and ideas these great writers and illustrators have always yearned to tell you." This week the pocket-sized magazine's first issue appeared on the stands. Its name (which it hopes to change annually...
...Walter Lippmann represents a school of thought that sees something sinister in the Soviet willingness to disarm. Stating that Russian military strength depends upon its manpower while ours rests on a technological base, he says that the Soviet proposal "is in its essence that the Soviet Union should demobilize and that we should disarm." In other words, Russia would lose nothing by sending the troops home, while we would render ineffectual our science-dependent war machine. The first of two important points over looked by this Machiavellian school is that the USSR economy is today suffering from an acute shortage...
...wrote, "[presidential press conferences] are as unsatisfactory as they are dangerous. . . . [Truman's] system is bound to produce the results it so frequently does produce: not information and understanding but confusion and consternation throughout the world." The public has to know what the Government is doing, said Lippmann, but "the President cannot supply that information offhand . . . especially when there will always be some more interested in heckling him than in reporting...
...only real objection to delayed answers, Lippmann supposed, was that they "would be ghost-written and would, therefore, conceal from the public the quality of the man who is President." Said Lippmann hopefully: "there would remain the whole field of domestic politics and internal policy...
...question was, said Lippmann, whether "the fine flower of a free press can be enjoyed only in these catch-as-catch-can interviews, with their uninformed and uninforming answers to unprepared and unconsidered questions...