The Press: Elucidator

Other countries might have produced such a journalist, but only in the U. S. could he exist today. In Germany or Italy he would be in prison or silent; in Russia, dead; in France, a partisan among partisans; in England, anonymous; in Japan, inconceivable. Only in a kind where the banner of a free press still proudly flaps could such a journalistic phenomenon as Walter Lippmann rise and continue to shine. Last week, however, Walter Lippmann rose and shone in a new quarter of the political firmament.

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