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Businessman's Beliefs. Along with Henry Taylor's dislike of theories which do not take that confident spirit of his ancestors into account is his sharp warning against vague postwar plans. Far from using Walter Lippmann's language, he nevertheless repeats Lippmann's arguments against unlimited international commitments that are not backed up by the power to make them effective. "We are in no position to lift the standard of living in China, in Russia, among 400,000,000 impoverished people on the overpopulated peninsula of Europe. . . . The whole conception of ... infusing the Four Freedoms...
...Walter Lippmann's case the lack of preparation was important. For 25 years he has been an outstanding U.S. authority on foreign policy (TIME, Sept. 27, 1937). With the late great Herbert Croly, he helped form the policy of the Wilson Administration, during World War I, when Croly's New Republic, with a circulation of 48,000 (circulation now: 27,000), was one of the most influential of U.S. magazines. Lippmann knew that a German victory would make Germany the leader of the West, "the leader ultimately of a German-Russian-Japanese coalition against the Atlantic world." Working...
Editing the New York World when it was one of the most influential of U.S. newspapers, Lippmann knew that a combination of British-American sea power was (and is) essential. "Nevertheless I was too weak-minded to take a stand against the exorbitant folly of the Washington Disarmament Conference." He praised that disaster as a triumph, denounced the admirals who dared to protest. "Of that episode in my life I am ashamed, all the more so because I had no excuse for not knowing better...
Source of Error. Confession is good for the soul of America, doubly so when it results in a useful book. Troubled, groping, weakened by many a long historical digression, U.S. Foreign Policy suggests that Pundit Lippmann is at a halfway point in the clarification of his views, has shed many an old illusion without quite working out a new position to replace them. The illusions were general...
...Lippmann's conclusions are that an adoption of the pre-American system of European alliances of great nations is now essential; that "a nuclear alliance of Britain, Russia, America, and, if possible, China, cannot hold together if it does not operate within the limitations of an international order that preserves the national liberties of other peoples"; that these three or four great powers "will not remain united against the revival of German and Japanese military power" if they become postwar rivals in the domination of Europe or colonial countries; that nuclear alliances must be consolidated and perpetuated; that...