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Charles Lindbergh — Part 2
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aoe So!UTION FOR ALL cLui. No.4 2 eae vi
a ae non ~ PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA wo, ; ae ge ee
">" Circular Letter No. 2 i _- Denner, Yo
+ Last moath you rived a letter from the Lindbergh For President Ctub No. 1, of t the 2 shove Vidrese Ss
yr. Mctober letter comes from the same organization, from the same address, and from the identically same commit
c- ” tee membership—onMMthe name of the organization has been changed. It ia now the SOLUTION FOR Am
CLUB No.1. During the course of this letter you will learn the reasons for this change of name withoat chang:
ie objectives.
= We received a considerable number of replies to our frst letter, encouraging and prompting ws to witl
~~ ‘this work. The dominant feeling of the many letters was that, as expreased by one of the writer, our plan i
= “a ray of bope in an otherwise dark situation.”
“aa ‘ty A few letters were unfavorable to the movement We do not blame these writers, for we think we rehave BO
3 yet given ourselves opportunity to make known what we are and stand for. We shall sow quote yan onc o
Sams letters. It is the only one of its particular kind that we received. Yet we quote it becatse ¥
that others must have thought likewise. Furthermore, our answer to this letter turns out to be an aii
ato! gerer to all the questions, suggestions and such misunderstandings as were contained im all the letters we re
™, ~Tyetved. We quote the letter, word for word, and in full, as follows: . ones
Gentlemen:
oe Your anonymous communication of August 1940 is hardly deserving of serious consideration a by any ac!
wespecting Amencan citizen who has the interest of bis country honestly at heart. Furthermore, anyone wh
Es “@ets out to revolutionize with or without force the economic system of the country should bave courage en enong:
ae * to atand upon his feet and deciare his intentions without using so honorabie a person as Colonel! Liodbergh as.
~@ont. Further, an organization of the magnitude you propose which is inviting the support of American voter
> | geould at least indicate who are the responsible persons sponsoring the movement, You have an obligation t
= country to make yourself known.
* de Yours very truly,
Fa >. “This is our answer
Pree We like your letter. We think it is in large part justified. And where it is sot justified, that is doe to tl
ei tect that we were stil] moving to get into a position from which we could make known our aims and objective
_Mour letter evidently recognizes nobility of purpose and objectives in our first setter; yet it also recogniz:
C5". @omething that is greatly incongruous to that nobility. It was that incongruity that justified you in strafir
t= SA. ie all the practical loftiness there was in our proceedure.
‘A very brief account of the brief history, to date, of this Club will show you bow this tenrporary iacongr
came about. The executive committee waa from the beginning composed of men who are without questic
y acd selflessly and sympathetically devoted to bring conso tolation and order into all aspects of baman €
ee ‘ore In carrying out their work as a committee they began by doing the nsua) thing in the usual way, name!
pial fo make the usual expressions on the usual earnest kind of issues, and on the newly arriving temporary issue!
wand then to “HAIL SOMEBODY” who they thought could lead the American Nation into the better way. The
ented speci salieed amd tienieed ieee ee and net their bone in maevenneliqn "Thaw were anes their nhieactiwes ws
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oor Fats ye they felt insufficient in the execution of their work, Consequently they made known the caste:
* the Ga b toa certain element of persons, and invited their co-operation. Some literature had already been p
set “peared an dé allowed to trickle out, and its results noted. The new element differed ¥ kindly with ‘the ol
ae tims and objectives. They knew things would have to be conceived and cartied on differently; and they knew
1.9 would be done digerently, Yet they used no argument vor pressure to bring about this change. They allow
Pees Fhings to develop s “step from the old idea to the new idea. Demonstration and the hima logically j
*- diced the change; rst circular letter of the Club went through to bring sbout climax =:
“ Yergnt ats ‘Ail the members of the committee, without one dissenting voice from both
clement, are heartily agreed that we are now really beginning to state to you
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of thin Law iam alright principles and ol ight . We of this Club
CAL ERCT of te UE express and to apply, that which we sense to be the S ME)
UNIVERSE, on all things, great end small, and, of couree, > y im bun
political larly, ua far as our present expression a8 the Solution for Al goes, in our ¢
red ESSEMEN be precticn't se anegeenipeem gee ikea Rove»
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