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What few seemed to grasp was that the planning and changeover to a peace economy would be infinitely tougher, and politically more explosive, than the 1940 American conversion to war. Said Pundit Walter Lippmann: "We shall have to face fully the realities . . . which are now as little understood as were the danger and imminence of war in the winter of 1940. How little that was understood may be judged from the fact that two months before the fall of France, the House cut the number of replacement airplanes of the Army to 57, and the President did not publicly object...
...Walter Lippmann shrewdly pointed out one basic flaw in Taft's reasoning: that other nations may actually refuse to accept the direct U.S. loans which are Taft's alternative to the Fund-Bank proposals...
...subject of world organization, Welles is a Wilsonian, which puts him in the anti-Walter Lippmann camp. Against Lippmann's argument for regional groupings and alliances, Welles counterposes a revived League of Nations, a "Community of Power" with a central executive council, a centralized security and armaments commission, and international trusteeship of colonial peoples who are not ready for autonomy. In Welles's proposed provisional council of the United Nations. the big nations (Russia, the United Kingdom, China and the U.S.) would get four votes out of a total of eleven. Yet Welles would base his international organization...
Wilson insisted that "the settlement of every question" must be "upon the basis of the free acceptance of that settlement by the people immediately concerned." Says Lippmann: "This principle gives to the people inhabiting any strategic point upon the world's surface-say Panama, Gibraltar-an absolute veto on any arrangement designed to use that point for the security of a nation, a region, or of the world...
Wilson insisted on the "exceedingly tricky general principle" of self-determination. Says Lippmann: "The principle can be and has been used to promote the dismemberment of practically every organized state. None knew this better than Adolf Hitler himself...