Who coined the expression the 'Cold War' and who popularized it?

TabbyTom

The Cassell Companion to Quotations quotes Bernard Baruch, the American financier, as saying "Let us not be deceived: we are today in the midst of a cold war" in a speech in South Carolina on April 16, 1947. The note reads: "The phrase was suggested to Baruch by his speechwriter, Herbert Bayard Swope, who had been using it privately since 1940. The columnist Walter Lippmann gave the term wide currency and is sometimes mistakenly credited with coining it. Swope clearly coined it: Baruch gave it currency. " The Oxford English Dictionary has journalistic quotes from George Orwell in "Tribune" (October 19, 1945: "a state which was in a permanent 'cold war' with its neighbours"), and from "The Observer" (March 10, 1946: "After the Moscow conference last December, Russia began to make a 'cold war' on Britain and the British Empire."). In both these quotations the phrase is in inverted commas. So, putting this lot together, it seems that Swope probably coined the phrase and used it privately. It was picked up by occasional journalists, and finally caught on when it was used by Baruch. Jul 22 03, 5:20 PM