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Last week the combination of Lend-Lease and Yugoslavia suggested an answer to Pundit Walter Lippmann: Britain could not have landed in Greece without the assurance of U. S. aid. Without the promise of supplies, the prospect for Yugoslavia would have been so hopeless that no national resistance could have been organized. He wrote...
Post-war liberals will find in Harold Rugg's awakening a nostalgic flavor. Greenwich Village, Walter Lippmann's New Republic and Sinclair Lewis were in their heyday, corsets were coming off and speakeasies coming in. Rugg discovered Isadora Duncan, the Fabian Society, John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, the "new historians," notably Charles A. Beard. Aroused by such "frontier thinkers," Rugg decided that education needed frontier thinking too, helped launch the famed Teachers College group. For some ten years this group-Professors Rugg, William H. Kilpatrick, George S. Counts, Jesse H. NewIon, Goodwin Watson, et al.-held bimonthly discussions...
Celebrating a half-century of teaching, the Harvard Teachers Association will hold its fiftieth annual meeting here tomorrow. Columnist Walter Lippmann, who was to have been the featured speaker on the occasion, will not be present...
Columnist Walter Lippmann is scheduled to speak on "Our present Crisis" at the anniversary banquet which will also be addressed by Andre Morize, professor of French Literature, and by Dr. Dirk H. Van Der Stucken, commentator on international events...
Last week the Gallup Poll (which had previously shown that President Roosevelt had the support of an unprecedented 71% of the electorate) showed in preliminary figures that only 54% endorsed the Lend-Lease Bill, most of them with modifications. The discrepancy was significant. To Pundit Walter Lippmann opposition to the bill was a refusal to admit the importance of the crisis. To Pundit Mark Sullivan it was a sign of confusion over the objectives of the bill itself. But whatever course of action the U. S. chose, its attitude had all the earmarks of a gigantic national self-deception...