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...World Divided. In the last analysis, everything in Author Lippmann's audit comes down to the question of relations between just two powers-the U.S. and the Soviet Union. "They can prevent a third World War. If they fight, it will be the most terrible of all world wars." But if Russia remains within her orbit, they have no reasons to fight. They would certainly fight "if the Soviet Union made an alliance with Germany, with Japan, or a separate and exclusive alliance with any member of the Atlantic Community"-for example, France...
...Lippmann is willing to go even farther...
Wilsonian Refutation. For many readers the most provocative section of Author Lippmann's book will be the 13 pages in which he undertakes to refute Woodrow Wilson's international political principles. For not until the Wilsonian fallacies are cleared away can the U.S. achieve, or even formulate, realistic war aims...
...Says Lippmann: "Wilson's name is now so completely identified with the ideal of a universal society that the principles he laid down for attaining a universal society are generally believed to be axiomatic and immutable." Author Lippmann believes that "a universal society cannot be realized by following the Wilsonian principles...
...Points (in whose formulation Lippmann himself collaborated) Wilson called for reduction of national armaments "to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety."Says Lippmann: "In the interval between the two wars British, French and American military policy followed this disastrous prescription...