Word: pundit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Generals & Sinners. In August 1939, Pundit Kaltenborn confesses, he made a prize boner. Asked if he thought war would come soon, he said in clipped, confident tones: "The odds are still seven to five in favor of more appeasement." Two days later, "Hitler's blitzkrieg roared across the Polish frontier...
...want to risk having the "merchant of death" tag pinned on it again. Nor did it have any desire to hand more ammunition to Fair Deal trustbusters who have filed three suits attempting to break up the Du Pont organization. Last week the New York Times's Pundit Arthur Krock scored the paradoxical Government policy of trying to make Du Pont bigger and smaller at the same time. Wrote he: "When the Government needs skills and organizations to do big jobs, especially in the area of security, it must call upon those which often at the same time...
...above), there was still a question as to how swiftly and smoothly the U.S. could mobilize in an emergency. Last week, as Congress was winding up work on the Defense Production bill, which blueprints such a mobilization along with necessary controls, the New York Times's military pundit Hanson Baldwin sourly commented: "Our economic mobilization agencies may well become a cluttered and administratively impossible mess...
...Pundit Walter Lippmann plunged into the argument. The kind of ultimatum demanded by Stassen, wrote he, could not possibly be drafted in terms that were clear and unmistakable. "An ultimatum is the most serious act in diplomacy," he said. ". . . An ultimatum which could bring on a universal war [should not] even be considered unless there is preponderant power to enforce it. That no such power exists is evident . . . To think that nations which are undefended now are now in a position to issue an ultimatum to the strongest military power on earth seems to be a good deal less than...
Randolph Churchill, 39, greying son of Winston, wartime crack Commando major and more recently a lecturer and newspaper pundit, was off to Korea where he will report the war for the London Daily Telegraph...