Word: punditing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody rushed for the telephone. But seasoned old Pundit Mark Sullivan grasped the full historic significance of the change: though some New Deal experiments had been killed by Congress, and a few had been invalidated by the courts, this was the first one to be formally renounced. The President made it clear that he had not been responsible for the mistake in the first place. Retail merchants had wanted the date of Thanksgiving set a week ahead to lengthen the shopping season before Christmas; the expected boon to trade had not materialized; the changed date had been an experiment...
Like Senator Pepper, Military Pundit George Fielding Eliot declared: "We have ample forces available for [the seizure of Dakar] . . . and the scale of resistance to be expected now is far less than it will be if we wait until the Germans are there in force. . . . But we must act now, while there is time. Tomorrow is certainly going to be too late. . . ." If the President even thought of taking Dakar with the weak U.S. Atlantic Fleet (see p. 22) he gave no sign of it. At his first press conference in two weeks, showing no signs of his illness except...
...Wrote Pundit Walter Lippmann: "For the Americas the decisive phase of the war has begun with Marshal Pétain's announcement that France and the French colonial Empire are to be put, regardless of what the French people may think, at the disposal of Hitler. The French Empire . . . occupies positions of the greatest importance in the Caribbean . . . Atlantic . . Mediterranean . . . Red Sea . . . Indian Ocean . . Pacific...
...Japanese had moved southward to cut outside maritime communications with China. Last week, although the U.S. State Department still minimized the Russo-Japanese Pact, more & more officials were realizing the effectiveness of Axis grand strategy: to destroy the Anglo-American position in the world by isolating the U.S. Said Pundit Walter Lippmann, espousing this view: The issue of 1941 is "whether the United States, cut off from Asia, from Europe, from Africa, from South America, and from the British Isles, is to be left alone, entirely isolated, incompletely armed, and encircled by the worldwide totalitarian alliance...
Then came the first news, only an appetizer. At the far end of the hall a New York Times office boy came to the door, handed a torn-off news-ticker scrap to a Secret Service guard. The guard delivered the scrap to Times Bureau Chief Arthur Krock. Pundit Krock glanced at it, reached the scrap up to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who adjusted his pince-nez, read that Soviet Russia and Yugoslavia signed a non-aggression pact. Impassively he handed the news to Franklin Roosevelt...