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...that editorial page that other U. S. newspapermen, insofar as they regarded the World as the Law & the Prophets, paid homage as to their Moses, their prophet of Liberalism. This week a great dinner was given by the Academy of Political Science in Manhattan for 41-year-old Walter Lippmann, the past seven years the World's chief editorial writer. He announced as the subject of his address: "Journalism and the Liberal Spirit...
...Liberalism: Where Is it? An inquisitive foreigner might have been prompted by Mr. Lippmann's subject to ask: What and where is U. S. Liberalism? Is there any such thing...
...Prohibition; to The Nation, New Republic, St. Louis Post Dispatch and Scripps-Howard chainpapers, and to Will Rogers?all of them exponents of one or another kind of U. S. Liberalism. But for an exemplar and spokesman whose Liberalism would be little disputed and least necessary to define, Walter Lippmann of the late World would serve the inquisitive foreigner best...
...Testament. To the Academy of Political Science, Liberal Lippmann offered no definitions or solutions. Instead he sounded like a political philosopher wearied after a long fight, reminiscent...
From Wilson to the World. But Lippmann was moving gradually from Left to Right. By 1916 the New Republic was behind President Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt was flaying it. When the War came, after brief service as an assistant to Secretary of War Baker, Walter Lippmann was named secretary of an organization called The Inquiry, under Col. House. The Inquiry's purpose was to ascertain and formulate the peace aims and claims of all parties to the War. So well did Secretary Lippmann do his job?his abstract ideas filtered through to President Wilson's speeches?that he was sent...