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ON THE LEFT… C.B.R.

Flirtation. Not since the days of Mary Price’s penetration of Walter Lippmann’s files, have the Communists shown such ardent interest in Mr. Lippmann. (Miss Price will be remembered as one of Elizabeth Bentley’s co-conspirators in the Communist Party.) In fact, their frenzied wooing has aroused more than passing comment on newspaper row. A few months ago, Pravda and Izvestia signalled their American compatriots by reprinting, without comment, Lippmann’s column criticizing President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles. Moscow’s faithful echo, the Daily Worker, on August 23 quoted with acclaim Lippmann’s convenient theory that the “military stalemate” demonstrated at Geneva “will compel us to rethink a number of our ideas.” First to be rethought, he felt, was “the assumption that the revolutionary movements all over the globe originate in Moscow.” Again on August 11 the Communist mouthpiece cited, as proof of Dulles’ failure at Geneva, Lippmann’s statement that Dulles and everyone else knew that the Soviet Union would never accept proposals to “surrender unconditionally.” Again on November 20 a Red feature writer referred to Lippmann’s column, “The Post Geneva World,” as “the most important and most cogent thing he has ever written.” Quoting generously from Lippmann’s article, this feature writer says that “Lippmann punctures all the pretentious propaganda that the big business press cabled in the guise of news.” Incidentally, Lippmann was an honor guest at the musicale and supper party given for the Soviet violinist Oistrakh at the Soviet Embassy on December 16.

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ON THE LEFT… C.B.R.

Flirtation. Not since the days of Mary Price’s penetration of Walter Lippmann’s files, have the Communists shown such ardent interest in Mr. Lippmann. (Miss Price will be remembered as one of Elizabeth Bentley’s co-conspirators in the Communist Party.) In fact, their frenzied wooing has aroused more than passing comment on newspaper row. A few months ago, Pravda and Izvestia signalled their American compatriots by reprinting, without comment, Lippmann’s column criticizing President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles. Moscow’s faithful echo, the Daily Worker, on August 23 quoted with acclaim Lippmann’s convenient theory that the “military stalemate” demonstrated at Geneva “will compel us to rethink a number of our ideas.” First to be rethought, he felt, was “the assumption that the revolutionary movements all over the globe originate in Moscow.” Again on August 11 the Communist mouthpiece cited, as proof of Dulles’ failure at Geneva, Lippmann’s statement that Dulles and everyone else knew that the Soviet Union would never accept proposals to “surrender unconditionally.” Again on November 20 a Red feature writer referred to Lippmann’s column, “The Post Geneva World,” as “the most important and most cogent thing he has ever written.” Quoting generously from Lippmann’s article, this feature writer says that “Lippmann punctures all the pretentious propaganda that the big business press cabled in the guise of news.” Incidentally, Lippmann was an honor guest at the musicale and supper party given for the Soviet violinist Oistrakh at the Soviet Embassy on December 16.