Word: lippmann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about that. Harry Truman's St. Patrick's Day speech to Congress, which implied a promise of military help, was not enough for them. Belgium's Premier Paul-Henri Spaak appeared shortly in Washington and asked for a definite commitment. It was not forthcoming. Pundit Walter Lippmann and others noted that the U.S. could hardly help going to war if Russia attacked Western Europe, since U.S. troops east of the Rhine would have to be pushed aside first. But Europeans wondered whether, in that case, the U.S. would pull its troops out or pour more...
...would not be enough for all of Latin America's economic needs. The only final salvation for dollar-short countries like Argentina lay in restoring Europe's capacity to pay for their agricultural produce with the girders, dynamos and machines so badly wanted. Economically, as Walter Lippmann put it, the hemisphere would have to learn to "take its place in the larger community of the Western world...
...statesman. Thus he is esteemed in all quarters except those envenomed by the Chicago Tribune or perverted by fellow travelers. In New Hampshire, for example, many Deweymen and Stassenmen were second-choice Vandenbergmen. In sum, the private conversations of many GOP wise men were expressed by Pundit Walter Lippmann. Said he: "There is no doubt that Vandenberg is now the man on whom the active candidates could most readily come together ... of no other man can it be said that there are so many Republicans who trust him, so few who are deeply opposed...
...warmongering, said Chafee, he preferred to call it the "promotion of hatred," and he read a few samples from the Russian press. It had called the New York Times's Brooks Atkinson "a mercenary bandit, not fit to whip," and the Herald Tribune's Walter Lippmann a "faithful servant of monopolistic circles...
...cited statements from several Soviet newspapers, calling Walter Lippmann "a faithful servant of monopolistic circles" and Brooks Atkinson, New York Times drama critic, "a mercenary bandit, not fit to whip ... a product of the Stock Exchange and the black markets...