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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...
...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...
...sparked by Guest Speaker Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad,* a bearded, posturing professional pundit, the famed old Oxford Union voted 275 to 153 "that under no circumstances will we fight for King and Country." When graduate members, led by Winston Churchill's choleric son Randolph, tried to expunge this from the record, they were swamped 750 to 138. In his history of World War II, Winston Churchill somberly wrote: "It was easy to laugh off such an episode in England, but in Germany, in Russia, in Italy, in Japan, the idea of a decadent, degenerate Britain took deep root...