From Walter Lippman's book review of the anonymously written Philip Dru, Administrator: "Now, if the author is really a man of affairs, this is an extraordinarily interesting book. It shows how utterly juvenile a great man can be... If he is really an example of the far-seeing public man, then, in all sincerity, I say, God help this sunny land."

Follow this link to the original source: "AMERICA'S FUTURE; Pictured in a Decidedly Quaint Modern Novel"

Just ahead of the coup of 1913 and our sunny land's participation in WWI, Walter Lippman's unintentionally prescient quote comes courtesy of the New York Times archives available on-line.  It points to a less suspicious reason why it may have taken President Wilson's alter ego, and spiritual Marxist Edward Mandell House, several years to admit he was the anonymous author of Philip Dru: Administrator.

Though good enough to later help Lippman himself in drafting President Wilson's Fourteen Points Peace Programme, the future CFR founder House was, as Lippman points out, far from being novelist material.  Nonetheless, the contrived plot of his political treatise does come to mind as one reads how Justin Raimondo describes Sibel Edmonds' allegations that top U.S. officials aided in the sale and distribution of American nuclear secrets to foreign governments: "Corruption and a massive cover-up organized at the highest levels of government... "

As in Philip Dru, could exposure of such skull-duggery be the precipitating event that eventually leads to a once free people accepting deliverance offered by a "benevolent" military dictator?  Let's defer to Lippman once more as he gives the nickel sketch of how House worked out the details of his own two-bit plan:

"Washington, D.C. is occupied by Gen. Dru and the Government is overthrown.  Dru now becomes dictator, or rather administrator, as he puts it with true republican modesty.  For eight years he remodels the institutions of the country.  Being a fervent Democrat, he presents the people with a democratic Government.  They accept it gratefully like good Democrats." 

Indeed, as House and other utterly juvenile minds would see it, being dictator would be a heck of a lot easier when you are trying to secure democratic government for a people.   As in Lippman's day though, we should be ever vigilant of any public personages who claim they just care about our country or want to restore trust in government. 

Thankfully, we do not appear to be irreversibly down the path House envisioned. But, these are perilous times. Throw in the specter of nuclear terrorism on top of a probable financial crisis and things could get prickly in a hurry. Or, as Raimondo adds, "If even half of what Edmonds alleges turns out to be true, then we are all in some very big trouble."

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