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...editor's job of thinking for himself. Grimes flavors his editorial page with six canned pundits, but never hesitates to strike up an argument in his own editorial column if he thinks a columnist is sour. Last week he had words for both Walter Lippmann and George Sokolsky...
...Lippmann made him mad with a piece on the United Nations resolution condemning Communist China as an aggressor in Korea. "The vote,"wrote Lippmann, "is in fact a serious defeat for this country on the main issue. The issue was Asia . . . We see [by the vote] that we have . . . no important supporters in Asia ... It would have been a great deal smarter . . . not to force a showdown...
Countered Grimes: "He says the issue was Asia; we say it was moral, which is an issue much more vital than Asia . . . We can never pretend to occupy the same exalted and immaculate ivory tower Walter Lippmann inhabits ... but we do not believe you can ignore moral issues or put principle under the heel of expedience and get away with...
...press promptly burst into a chorus of high-minded admonishment. Editorialists, in their best voice-of-reason tones, reproved the hasty Connally; readers wrote grave letters of warning to editors; Communists crowed. Columnist Walter Lippmann exhorted with heavy passion: "We can not, we must not stoop to it ... For it would illustrate too dramatically the propaganda of our enemies -namely, that American philanthropy undermines the independence of the nations which accept...
...give up one's allies, draw back into the Western Hemisphere, spend mainly to make the U.S. strong-was heard again in the land last week. It was neither "the main tide . . . running" nor the intuitive common sense of "the great mass of the people," as Pundit Walter Lippmann implied. But there was indeed "subterranean muttering," as the Alsop Brothers reported. And in a speech by Joseph Patrick Kennedy, millionaire financier and onetime U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, the mutterings surfaced and were clearly heard. If Kennedy's words seemed vaguely familiar...