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Asia for the Asiatics. Throughout the democratic world, in fact, there was a growing appreciation of the point of view eloquently expressed last week by U.S. Pundit Walter Lippmann...
Visiting Columnist Walter Lippmann had a novel solution: "Any one who comes here from Washington will . . . be convinced that the distance is too great, that communication is too difficult, and that the questions are often too peculiar to be dealt with by referring them back and forth. . . . There is needed in the Pacific Coast region not only unity of military command . . . but also a unity of civil authority . . . a governor general...
Said Pundit Walter Lippmann last week: "The morale of the people is good when they are busy, excellent when they are very busy and poor to middling when they have nothing to do but think about the morale of someone else." In Congress, buck-passing the pension bill while Singapore fell, morale was very poor indeed...
...professional's war, and civilians recognized that it was their duty to keep out of the way. It was also said that not until March 15, when income taxes would write the date in red, would the people know what they were up against. Some believed, like Walter Lippmann, that most of the average man's sense of remoteness from the war was explained by the fact that the only man who could explain the war news to them-the President-was not doing it. Or it was argued that the war was so vast that individual...
...books from the best available sales figures; and asked a group of "informed people" to say what books "have most profoundly affected the thoughts and actions of mankind" since 1892. On the jury were Charles A. Beard, Henry Seidel Canby, John Dewey, Jerome Frank, Henry Hazlitt, John Kieran, Walter Lippmann, Somerset Maugham, Christopher Morley, William Lyon Phelps, Norman Thomas, Carl Van Doren. Their first ten choices, in order of recommendations received...