*Lippmann later claimed that the decision to oppose the treaty was basically his editor's; “I followed him, though I was not then, and not now, convinced that it was the wise thing to do. If I had it to do over again, I should take the other side; we supplied [the Republican opposition to the treaty] with too much ammunition.” Ronald Steel, Walter Lippmann and the American Century (Little, Brown, 1980), 166. See also Walter Lippmann, “The Intimate Papers of Colonel House,” Foreign Affairs 4 (1962); and Walter Lippmann, “Notes for Biography,” New Republic, July 16, 1930.