The Round Table's principal American intellectual operative. Harvard 1910; met Round Table member Alfred Zimmern in London November 8, 1911; explicitly converted to the Round Table program in his June 7, 1915 letter: "I have been studying the Round Table literature and feel essentially converted." Coined "the Atlantic Community" in his February 17, 1917 New Republic essay "The Defense of the Atlantic World" — the ideological framing that named NATO 1949 and that the Atlantic Council operates under today. Co-edited The New Republic (financed by Morgan partner Willard Straight) — the magazine became the quasi-official mouthpiece of Wilson's progressive-liberal-internationalist project.
's AGR). Drafted Wilson's 14 Points; participated in Versailles. Returned to journalism after the war and became the most influential American foreign-policy columnist of the 20-c — close adviser to JFK in the early 1960s, continuous advocacy of Atlantic partnership through to his death November 14, 1974. The single biography that traces the Inquiry → CFR → Atlantic-partnership → 1960s American imperial liberalism continuity most directly. (Claims WiU-22-007, WiU-22-008, WiU-22-009.)Ben-Aharon history and CFRRecruited by House to be the secretary of the Inquiry at age 28 — "We are skimming the cream of the younger and more imaginative scholars," Lippmann announced; "What we are looking for is genius — sheer, startling genius, and nothing else will do" (his own language, quoted in Peter Grose's official