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Last week, with the Japanese still stuttering in astonishment over the abrogation of the 1911 treaty (TIME, Feb. 5), Columnist Walter Lippmann took a good look at U. S. Far East policy. What he saw he viewed with alarm. A good part of the responsibility for what he saw he placed squarely on one man: Senator Arthur Vandenberg...
...wrote Mr. Lippmann in his column, it was his resolution, introduced in July, which prepared the way for the abrogation of the 1911 treaty with Japan-"the longest step on the road to war that the U. S. has taken since President Wilson announced in 1915 that he would hold the German Government to strict accountability for its acts...
...Vandenberg resolution, Lippmann pointed out: 1) imposed a serious threat (of embargo) on Japan; 2) proposed collective action with Great Britain, France, Italy, China, The Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal against Japan in the Pacific, "at the very moment when Senator Vandenberg was telling the people here that it made no vital difference to them if the Allies were defeated in Europe"; 3) put the U. S. in the position of recklessly challenging a great power...
...Prime example: "Franklin D. Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched privilege"-Walter Lippmann, January...
...your issue of Dec. 4 you reported the Warm Springs Women's Club serenading Franklin D. Roosevelt. You quoted their chorus thus: "Our nation needs a leader just like you, you, you." We would not be surprised if you have heard from Walter Lippmann about this. He has probably seen a third term implication in those three...