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...This is the first age in which it has been openly regarded as wrong for a nation, a Government, a party, or even a newspaper, to have a policy. . . . Field Marshal Smuts, Lord Halifax and Mr. Lippmann are rebuked for saying, with more or less frankness, that a nation without a policy may perish...
...carrier the Yard ever knew, who made the sagging wooden steps his lecture platform, and the students, then upperclassmen, his audience. Then Copey captured the imagination of the literary community with his intimate soirees in 13-15, gatherings that were to be the inspiration for men such as Reed, Lippmann, and Des Passos...
...Atlantic addressed its competition to working newsmen, but it left the field open to every reader, expected 1,000 entries. Heading its announcement was a statement of the goal by Walter Lippmann: "The attainment of full freedom requires rising standards of competence, responsibility, fairness, objectivity, disinterestedness, and indeed of charity, chivalry and good humor, in using the mighty engine of a free press. By this criterion we must recognize that we could do better...
Campaign Document? Many a Congressman thought he knew the answer to the President's change of mind: 1944 is an election year. But if the President's message was a campaign document, it was an extraordinary one. Mr. Roosevelt, as Walter Lippmann pointed out, seemed to assume that "it is good politics in the year 1944 to propose the very things which no other politician has ever regarded as anything but straight political suicide." And "we all know that Mr. Roosevelt is just about the shrewdest and most successful practical politician of our time...
...Pundit Lippmann, in an aside, was less appreciative of the President's administrative talents: "When he needs a suit of clothes [he] will find three tailors, will tell each of them to make one leg of the trousers, will let each of them guess which leg he is working on, and will then appoint a fourth tailor to coordinate the trousers...