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...PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY (189 pp.)-Walter Lippmann - Atlantic - Little, Brown...
...summer of 1938, Columnist Walter Lippmann, brooding about the "mounting disorder in our Western society," began to put his concern into book form. After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he laid aside his manuscript to see what was going to happen to the world. When he returned to his task after war's end, he found that "something had gone very wrong in the liberal democracies . . . They were unable to make peace and to restore order...
...Public Philosophy, Pundit Lippmann comes to some challenging conclusions about the ills that plague the democracies. He weakens his argument by not differentiating between the democracies-between the chronically sick French variety, for instance, and the vigorous but complex American form. But his diagnosis is well worth listening to: 1) public opinion is dominating the executive branch of democratic governments to the point of enfeeblement and paralysis, and 2) the democracies have abandoned the philosophy on which they were founded, i.e., the principle of the natural...
...Insecure & Intimidated." Public officials in the democracies, Lippmann complains, are forever feeling the public pulse to judge their own political condition...
...about the possibilities of permanent peaceful coexistence. N.Z.Z. is in no hurry to print breaking news, and its tabloid-size format is dull. It prints titles instead of headlines, and its circulation (70,000) is small. Yet it is must reading for such diverse political experts as Pundit Walter Lippmann and Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...