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on Tues‘ «April 29, 1941 * j ~ Colonel Lindbergh _ | Axis propagandists have played up Col Lindbergh's remarks for all they ge worth, not only in’the press of Ger- many and Italy, and in the satellite nations of the European continent, but in Latin America as well Writing from Quito, Ecuador, for instance, Harold . Callender, of the New York Times, de- claret that Col. Lindbergh's utterances and those of his wife “have been widely reproduced in the pro-German press in South America,” and that he “again makes the first pages of all newspapers with statements like those the Germans and pro-Germans have been making.” This is very disturbing news at a time when our national policy rests upon con- tinental solidarity. In undermining a declared national policy, and in making himeel’ thao Leow ef lke Stat LOS SpCsscsinal Fi a peat Gi view which gives such valuable aid and eomfort to the enemies of mankind, Cal Lindbergh has taken a very considerable responsibility upon himself. What makes his position al] the more vulnerable u that with all his plain speaking of the - Yast two years he has never voiced £ A syllable of protest against Nazi actions ‘| which have outraged civilized opinion. r | This is something to ponder over 2 tr pl tte sp Rha —-: zee ay Wace hung eet Equally astonishing is the fact that, . while saying that the downfall of Brit- 29 (94 ain would be a tragedy for us, he takes such a negative pesition as an amateur Policy-maker toward preventing it. Now, in pique over a remark made on the subject of defeatists by President Roosevelt at a recent press conference, Col. Lindbergh has resigned his com- "he mission in the Army Air Corps Reserve. The rightness or wrongness of his action iy a subsidiary matter, though it might be pointed out that had he been called into active service, as has happened to eo many other reserve officers, he could not have been able to make the speeches he has been making. Our main concern is ‘that this action, too, will be seized upon by Axis propagandists to persuade their gullible dupes that the United Sgates is a Nation divided within fteelf. 2 Thus the colonel continues, wittingly or unwittingly, to be the most effective ally bf the Axis standpoint on the war in this ff country. It is not the least tragic aspect | of the situation that he is so firmly and bs- 1/9 49- ee ed ‘ - een a tego so honestly convinced that in so doing be is rendering patriotic service to_th to the “Watlon,_ roe, ~~ e $>.