Word: lippmann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even odder that the West should insist on the Russian right to stay in Berlin. But in pressing for the kind of recognition-whether de facto or formal-that would only cement the division of Germany, the Russians are obviously seeking the status quo that Khrushchev told Walter Lippmann is the goal of Soviet diplomacy...
...Reflecting afterwards on his recent interview, Lippmann concluded that Khrushchev had a newfangled definition of the status quo: the West should recognize all that Russia now has, plus all that it intends to get, in Asia and Africa, by what it considers the inexorable march of events...
That the threat to the new nations is a real one should already be clear, though recent reports from Russia by Walter Lippmann and Adlai Stevenson delineate the immense extent of Communist appeal to the world's underdeveloped areas. To answer the Soviet challenge with half-way measures, such as the President has cited, or with threats on the order of Secretary Dulles' pronunciamento seems the height of folly...
...Lippmann, obviously impressed by Khrushchev's plans to switch Russia's grain-producing area from the Ukraine to Siberia, recommends that the United States prove--through an intensive agricultural and industrial program in India--that it can match Soviet and Chinese performance. Stevenson was more cautious about the possibility of failure for the Kremlin's grand Seven-Year Plan, but admitted the propaganda effect of such undertakings on nations which can see what Communism has done in forty years in Russia and in ten years in China...
...stressing the importance of making India a "showcase" for democracy's industrial potential, Lippmann may be overemphasizing the sub-continent's value as a propaganda display. Certainly the problems in India are immense and the strategic value of the area cannot be overestimated. It would, however, be unfortunate to concentrate all our efforts in India at the expense of other Asian and African nations equally vulnerable to Communist appeal...