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...Walter Lippmann (150 papers, circ. 10,000,000) is the Olympian . . . "no man writes with more skill and a better heart when dealing with democracy ten years and 10,000 miles away." But the onetime "brilliant spokesman of liberalism" has been "running neck and neck with general Republican opposition, calling upon the courts to liquidate the New Deal and upon the stars to view the general iniquity in Washington." Columnist Fisher finds Lippmann's "comment on world affairs comes from a background of study and close observance which scarcely any contemporary journalist can touch" . . . but three months before Pearl...
...Have. With disarming modesty, Author Adler confesses that only recently has he begun to think about war and peace at all. But this is only mock modesty, the grandmother's cap which Adler wears to distract attention from his sharp eyes and wolf's teeth. Walter Lippmann, Herbert Hoover, Hugh Gibson, Sumner Welles, the editors of the New York Times and the Popes of Rome are a few of the more important thinkers on war and peace who feel the crunch of the Adler incisors...
Adler says flatly that there can be no peace between sovereign states; at best there can be nothing more than an uneasy "truce," a period of jockeying and diplomatic cheating preliminary to the next outbreak of armed conflict. Mr. Lippmann is Adler's particular semantic bete noire, for Mr. Lippmann is always using the word "peace" when Adler thinks he should be speaking of "truce" or "armistice." The average reader may think this a matter of verbal quibble, for Mr. Lippmann uses the word peace with the full knowledge that there are kinds and degrees of peace...
Without even so much as an apology to Lippmann or a bow to the Pope or Clarence Streit, Adler admits toward the end of his book that perhaps leagues and alliances and regional enlargements of the "Peace-Group" have something to be said for them. With the air of a schoolmaster granting his pupils a brief holiday of the spirit, Adler counsels his readers to support or at least not interfere with a revived League of Nations. For a League or a Confederation might, he thinks, help accustom people to the idea of a single sovereign government for the world...
McKinnon felt confident of at least 30,000 circulation. His news and features lineup: United Press, Dorothy Thompson, Drew Pearson, Samuel Grafton, Walter Lippmann, Superman, Dick Tracy, Joe Palooka, others...