Word: punditing
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...that glitters is not gold, unfortunately, and as a pundit Hugues has been known to give himself over to such dogmatizing that myriad grains of salt are required for most of us to digest his writings. Famed Concert Meister Eddie Condon was once so unkind as to remark to the effect that, "We aren't giving him lessons on how to squash grapes; where does he get off trying to tell us how to play hot music...
...next day Moscow Pundit Vassily Voronin warned that Russia was "surrounded by capitalist countries and reactionary forces, and their desire to redivide the world may again produce armed conflict. . . ." China announced happily that Russia had sent a note promising to evacuate Manchuria by May 1. Canada revealed that members of the Soviet spy ring not only got money from Moscow but even got instructions not to take cabs all the way to their secret meeting places...
...having flexed its muscles, Apra was no longer so apprehensive. This week, as President Bustamante studied the bill submitted by Congress, the streets were Apra's. The Party's show of strength had given the lie to the anti-Apra pasquin pundit who had said: "They [Apra] could have been the masters of Peru. They had the girl in the automobile and the lights were out. And then the girl left them. For the crux of the matter is not to have the instrument but to know...
Some Washington newsmen, who knew that dickering for another Big Three meeting had gone on as recently as six weeks ago, were taken aback. Pundit Walter Lippmann wrote an angry column taking the President to task for another "offhand remark." In a querulous tone he asked whether the President intended to turn over General MacArthurs administration of Japan to the UNO Security Council-an eleven-nation body in which five nations have an unchallengeable veto...
Policy of Drift. Clement Attlee had arrived at a time when U.S. foreign policy was in a state of flux. The firm tone of President Truman's Navy Day speech was not followed by firm action. Fortnight ago, Pundit Walter Lippmann had complained: "It is quite clear . . . that our foreign relations are not under control, that decisions of the greatest moment are being made in bits and pieces without the exercise of any sufficient overall judgment ... by the President and his chief advisers...