Ammunition for Isolationists

Columnist Walter Lippmann, who has descended from his oracular heights to become a plain Kennedy Democrat, had the first word. "It now appears," he wrote last week of an Administration plan to buy $100 million worth of United Nations bonds, "that it may be defeated by a coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats." The danger: a counterproposal, by U.S. Senators George D. Aiken of Vermont and Bourke B. Hickenlooper of Iowa, both Republicans, that the U.S. Government lend the U.N. the money instead. Charged Lippmann hotly: This "confused raid on the bond plan" was caused by "crude partisanship . . . personal disgruntlement . . . old-fashioned isolationist hostility."

But if Lippmann had the first word, Aiken had the last. In a bitter denouncement of the columnist from the Senate floor, Aiken said that his object was to help, not hurt, the U.N. "By making false statements and accusations," said the Senator, addressing himself directly to Lippmann, "you and people who act like you are giving the old-fashioned isolationists the most potent ammunition they have had in the last two decades."

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