Word: lippmann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign policy. It cannot look to Washington; Harry Truman is a public opinion President, seeking to follow, not to lead, the people. Who, then, makes public opinion? One of the most revered (even though not the most widely read) of those who try to mold opinion is Walter Lippmann. For some time he has been unhappy about U. S. foreign policy. This is his line...
...statement was necessarily and beyond the shadow of a doubt made in bad faith. It would have to do that to prove that the situation implied by the phrase "peace offensive" actually exists. And the only way to discover whether or not that situation does exist, as Walter Lippmann has pointed out, the only way, in fact, for the United States to act in good faith itself, is to take the Russians at their word, confer with them, and hear what they have...
...other words, it was a federal handout with no strings attached, and practically everybody was for it. Among its backers were Walter Lippmann, General Eisenhower, Drew Pearson, President Conant, and Walt Disney. But House Speaker Joe Martin thought it would cost too much, and with the assistance of some similarly disposed Representatives, was able to keep the Taft bill from ever reaching the floor of the House...
...groups were set up to conduct a dis-interested investigation of the killing. The Overseas Writers Association, under Walter Lippmann, sent General William J. (Wild Bill) Donovan, of wartime Office of Strategic Services fame, to Greece to find out who killed Polk. And the Newsmen's Commission to Investigate the Murder of George Polk, representing about 20,000 working newsmen in the U. S. and Engand, has been raising money to send a team, to include William Polk, to Greece to track down the killers. The former group hoped to bring pressure on the Greek government to make an honest...
...Lippmann's group, loaded with prominent names, had an easy time getting its investigation under way. William Polk was not so lucky...