ABSTRACT
Walter Lippmann's suspicion of the masses, his growing caution, his rejection of the old Progressive creeds, and his high regard for the opinions of Wall Street troubled a good many of his old friends. When Lippmann went to the World Felix Frankfurter was delighted to have what he considered a privileged forum for his views. Lippmann's sin, so far as Frankfurter was concerned, was in being impartial about an inflammatory issue. In his full-page article for the World, Lippmann had managed to come down somewhere in the middle. Lippmann's growing suspicion of the masses, worked out analytically in Public Opinion and The Phantom Public, could now be justified as a defense of democracy. He also cared about his influence as a public person. His respect for authority, his fear of being cut off from centers of power, his distaste for too close an association with radicals often muted his voice.
