BY
WALTER LIPPMANN
NEW YORK
HARCOURT, BRACE AND HOWE
1920
COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY
HARCOURT, BRACE AND HOWE, INC.
In writing this tract I have dared to believe that many things
were possible because of the personal example offered to all who
practice journalism by Mr. C. P. Scott, for over forty-five years
editor-in-chief of the _Manchester Guardian_. In the light of his
career it cannot seem absurd or remote to think of freedom and truth in
relation to the news.
Two of the essays in this volume, “What Modern Liberty Means” and
“Liberty and the News” were published originally in the _Atlantic
Monthly_. I wish to thank Mr. Ellery Sedgwick for the encouragement he
gave me while writing them, and for permission to reprint them in this
volume.