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...Pundit Mark Sullivan, declared that promised U.S. aid to Russia was a mistake because it would make aid to Britain mo're difficult...
State Department bigwigs, who eat protocollops for lunch every day, enjoy the measured suggestions, the firm reproofs, in Walter Lippmann's column. But last week Pundit Lippmann wrote something that hit the whole Department, the White House and various unofficial advisers on foreign policy. He said that the German-Russian war had caught the White House and State Department looking the other way. "They have been acting as if they had been caught unprepared and were now compelled to improvise. They should not have been caught unprepared. . . . There was room for doubt as to which [Hitler] campaign-the British...
When Germany invaded Poland and World War II began, Comrade Mike Gold, foremost Communist pundit in the U.S., exulted: "I feel like a boy again!" Last week Comrade Gold confided how he felt when he heard of the invasion of Russia: "The first hour was awful-I shall never forget it. Now it had come-the thing we so feared for five, ten, 20 years." Meanwhile the U.S. showed no disposition to give up the job of rooting out domestic Reds because Stalin was fighting Hitler (although anti-Communists were alarmed at Washington reports that prosecutions were to be dropped...
...Runners-up for the kudos championship, with three honorary degrees apiece : Radio Pundit Raymond Gram Swing : Lafayette, Muhlenberg, Williams...
...greatest of all the bottlenecks in Washington," said Pundit Walter Lippmann last week, "is the bottleneck at the White House...