Word: lippmann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day Columnist Walter Lippmann agreed that "this is a great and necessary objective" and that each nation should perhaps at least guarantee that it will "make freely available to its people the official utterances of other States...
...Lippmann does not condemn treaty clauses, but thinks an ounce of good example is worth a pound of law. Said he: "Our own best contribution to the great cause of freedom of the press will be to avoid any self-righteous assumption that we here have achieved freedom of the press in its perfected and final form. We have not. . . . The more convincingly we show that the freedom we enjoy produces good results, promoting the saving truth rather than debasing public sentiment, the more we shall serve the cause of the freedom of the press...
...Walter Lippmann's U.S. Foreign Pol icy: "If I have any criticism of the book, and it is a minor one, it is that in pointing out how effective Britain's naval might was in making the Monroe Doctrine effective . . . the author rather overlooks the immense help to Britain's aims . . . given by American good will and purpose...
...examined the basic ideas which German Geopolitician Haushofer has contributed to Nazi grand strategy. Still a strong seller was Democratic Ideals and Reality ($2.50), by aging British Geopolitician Sir Halford Mackinder. There was also G. A. Borgese's Common Cause ($3.50) and a timely reissue of Walter Lippmann's The Good Society...
...books on the war, were so exhaustive and detailed that they constitute a new field of literature in themselves. Among the most readable postwar books: Make This the Last War (Michael Straight, $3); Let the People Know (Norman Angell, $2.50); U.S. Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic (Walter Lippmann, $1.50); Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time (Harold J. Laski, $3.50); Between Tears and Laughter (Lin Yutang...