The eminent historian of the Cold War Odd Arne Westad instead awards this distinction to the British writer George Orwell.
Others, however, reject either Baruch or Swope as coiners. Just months earlier, for instance, in April 1947, the financial magnate Bernard Baruch gave a speech in which he singled out “Russia” as the lone resistor to the American “way of life” and quest to reign as a “global guardian of safety”: “Let us not be deceived,” continued Baruch, “we are today in the midst of a cold war.” Multiple sources thus credit Baruch with coining the term, though technically the credit should go to his speechwriter, Herbert Bayard Swope. Lippmann, however, was not the first person to use the term.
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