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These incidents footed up to a grand total of political dissatisfaction with the radio and its division of time, gave radio men a great pain. Pundit Walter Lippmann came to their defense, declaring, "Even if [broadcasting companies] are just they will not seem to be just. They will be accused of being unjust. They will never convince every one that they are just. The pie is too small and the boys are too hungry...
Less easily did they get off at the hands of Pundit David Lawrence, who attacked the contention that "political facts" are all right, but "political skits" improper. Said he: "If the broadcasting companies ever attempt to separate fiction from fact in respect to political speeches, they will have to employ censors far more skillful in the separation of truth from untruth than the Justices of the Supreme Court themselves...
This stiff talk was followed by the unfolding of new Bolshevik building plans on a scale more grandiose than ever before. Commented News Pundit Walter Duranty: "Here they are building-mad. From the Arctic Ocean to the Caspian Sea, from the Baltic to the shores of the Pacific, there is such a fury of building as the world never saw. In the coming year the Soviets will spend 32 billion rubles on a building program which, in the valuation of Russian materials and Russian labor, represents between fifteen and twenty billions of dollars...
Last week London's "Augur." a respected news-pundit so close to His Majesty's Government that irate Italians have called him "the British Agent Augur" wrote off his own bat essentially what Il Duce has been whistling, served up the incipient mutiny of British tars in the Mediterranean to the British public as one reason for Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's consenting to dismemberment of Ethiopia. "Augur" pictured the disgruntled salts "cooped up in the narrow quarters of ships of all descriptions beginning to resent the tension of inactivity they are under without visible cause. They...
...Pundit Kent's column ("The Great Game of Politics") is carried by 115 newspapers, Pundit Lawrence's ("Today in Washington") by 131, Pundit Lippmann's ("Today & Tomorrow...