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...money at a record rate. A war industry was launched which made itself felt in the life of virtually every U.S. citizen. Some of them felt it as unemployment, the victims of priorities; but most of them felt it as an unexampled prosperity. The Administration's Cato, Walter Lippmann, was moved to characterize 1941 last week as "this disgraceful boom...
...Walter Lippmann, "Mrs. Roosevelt's talent for sugar-coating the matter with all manner of fads, fancies, homilies and programs which would have been appropriate to the activities of an excited village improvement society" and the "desk-thumping, the shrill appeals, the threats and warnings" of Mayor LaGuardia were not appropriate to the "grim business" of civilian defense. It should all be put under the jurisdiction of the War Department, said Mr. Lippmann. "The facts of the situation, and the morale of the people require lucid and authoritative commands." Mrs. Roosevelt should stop confusing everyone by being a minor...
With these words, Pundit Walter Lippmann last week reprimanded Franklin Roosevelt for talking out of turn about religious freedom in Russia. Certainly the President was not very smart in arousing Mr. Lippmann and others. But perhaps the President was a little smarter than Walter Lippmann knew...
...light of all these contingencies, many a Lippmann reader thought last week that the pundit's suggestion made scant sense. Even his conclusion-an appeal to the President to prove that he was honest in his promise not to engage U.S. troops on foreign battlefields-could be charged to a wistful faith in a commitment made in disregard of the facts of present-day international life...
Like Herbert Hoover, Pundit Lippmann apparently assumed that the war against Hitler is already on the way to being won. Like many another American and Briton, he failed to recognize that the summer of 1941 has shown not the strength but a basic weakness of the alliance against Hitler: for a whole summer while the Nazis were busy fighting Russia, Britain did not have the strength to launch a single attack of importance on Germany...