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...journalism's best-known pundit left his camp in Bernard, Me. a little while ago and returned to his ivy-covered home in Washington. He did not have any fresh-caught fish. What he had was a fat, prickly and impressive essay on U.S. foreign policy. Looking a little old, with heavy pouches under his eyes, 58-year-old Walter Lippmann-author of 19 books, New York Herald Tribune columnist since 1931-sat down to put together his thesis, which he called The Cold War. Two secretaries hovered beside him. Western Union stood by to pick up his copy...
...Pundit Lippmann, this conception and plan "is fundamentally unsound . . . 'a policy of holding the line and hoping for the best' . . . [which] cannot be made to work unless we get all the breaks . . . [i.e.] the Soviet Union will break its leg while the U.S. grows a pair of wings." Asked Lippmann: "Do we dare to assume that...
...giving the Red Army, rather than Marxism, the credit for Russia's present powerful position, Pundit Lippmann was on debatable ground-and had failed to note that the Red Army was built by Russia's Marxist rulers. And did Lippmann mean to say that Stalin's objectives were no wider than Peter's old-fashioned imperialism? It seemed clear to many people that Soviet Russia was a new-fashioned force...
Embracing all other crises was the crisis of the U.S. policy of containing Communism. Last week, Pundit Walter Lippmann asked the disturbing question whether such a policy was feasible at all (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). For at the bottom of almost every phase of crisis was the Soviet Union. From the heartland of Eurasia she irradiated the world along a vast circumference with waves of disruptive power...
Conductor Bruno Walter picked her to sing Leonore in an English version of Fidelia in 1945. Wrote the New York Times's Senior Music Pundit Olin Downes: "[She] showed that she had the voice, the high intelligence and the dramatic sincerity required for Leonore's great role. . . . The voice is of a warm color and stamina and resourcefulness throughout its range...