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...could give him no help against Germany. Yet it is Britain which has enabled Stalin to pursue his none too cooperative tactics so far-not by diplomatic pressure or concessions, but by keeping her fleet intact.In one of his occasionally brilliant analyses of the war, U. S. Pundit Walter Lippmann last week outlined his view of the relationship between British seapower and Comrade Molotov's visit...
...NLRB decisions? Congressmen roared that the Jackson ruling sabotaged the whole defense program. Cried New York's Representative Taber: "If a Republican had delivered such a ruling he would have been called a 'fifth columnist' by the gentleman in the White House." Snorted Pundit Walter Lippmann: "To roast pigs we must burn down a barn; to strengthen the Wagner Act we must weaken the National Defense...
Battle of the Oceans. The great battle had already begun. Pundit Walter Lippmann called it the Battle of the Oceans. The day before the pact was signed he wrote: "The battles over England and northern Europe and in the English Channel, at Gibraltar, toward Egypt and Suez, at Dakar in Africa and in French Indo-China are the opening battles of a great campaign in which there is at stake . . . the mastery of the oceans of the world...
...given in 1914, when Hoover's committee fed nearly 7,500,000 Belgians; for the most part Germany stuck to her word.) Mr. Hoover planned a U. S. commission to check up on the fulfillment of Nazi promises. What he was proposing in fact, as Columnist Walter Lippmann pointed out, was an internal blockade of Germany, in "a vast territory occupied by German armies." Other promises Mr. Hoover hoped to exact from Nazi Germany were a return to the conquered nations of the equivalent of the food Germany had already seized from them, and permission for the conquered countries...
...view of Latin-American complications, it seemed to be to U. S. advantage to avoid a final settlement, avoid establishing dangerous precedents that might create trouble in the future. Said Walter Lippmann: "No final settlement of any territorial question is remotely in sight. All that is required . . . is an interim working arrangement about the island itself. . . . It is plainly a question where the proper official attitude is to wait in order to see what actually happens in Martinique rather than to draw conclusions from what appears to be happening in Vichy. . . . What we must do . . . to protect our vital interests...