James Roscoe Drummond (January 13, 1902 – September 30, 1983) was a 20th-century American political journalist, editor, and syndicated Washington columnist, known for his long association with The Christian Science Monitor and 50-year syndicated column "State of the Nation", serving as director of information for the Marshall Plan, and co-founding Freedom House.
Drummond took a leave to serve as European director of information for the Marshall Plan from 1949 to 1951 with the Economic Cooperation Administration in Paris.
Syndicated by the Los Angeles Times, the column was carried by 150 newspapers in the U.S. and abroad, and reflected Drummond's Republican point of view.
He died of a heart ailment on September 30, 1983, at the Tenacre Foundation, a Christian Science nursing home in Princeton, New Jersey.
[7] He was co-author (with Gaston Coblentz) of Duel at the Brink (1960), a book about Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.