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Should the press, as the commission suggested, "engage in vigorous mutual criticism?" No, answered Columnist Walter Lippmann, admitting to membership in the country-club school of newspapering, in which club members do not discuss each other aloud. Wrote Lippmann: "For there is a fellowship among newspapermen as there is in other crafts and professions. They have to see each other . . . work together. ... I may say that I have tried [such criticism] and have had it tried on me, and my conclusion is that the hard feelings it causes are out of all proportion to the public benefits it causes...
Three hundred and fifty U.S. writers and artists had pooled their dollars and their talents to put out a magazine they could call their own (TIME, July 1). There were salable names among them: Steinbeck, Dos Passos, Lippmann, Hersey, Fadiman, Gropper. The editors boldly promised "stories, experiences and ideas these great writers and illustrators have always yearned to tell you." This week the pocket-sized magazine's first issue appeared on the stands. Its name (which it hopes to change annually...
...Walter Lippmann represents a school of thought that sees something sinister in the Soviet willingness to disarm. Stating that Russian military strength depends upon its manpower while ours rests on a technological base, he says that the Soviet proposal "is in its essence that the Soviet Union should demobilize and that we should disarm." In other words, Russia would lose nothing by sending the troops home, while we would render ineffectual our science-dependent war machine. The first of two important points over looked by this Machiavellian school is that the USSR economy is today suffering from an acute shortage...
...only real objection to delayed answers, Lippmann supposed, was that they "would be ghost-written and would, therefore, conceal from the public the quality of the man who is President." Said Lippmann hopefully: "there would remain the whole field of domestic politics and internal policy...
...question was, said Lippmann, whether "the fine flower of a free press can be enjoyed only in these catch-as-catch-can interviews, with their uninformed and uninforming answers to unprepared and unconsidered questions...