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s In the year following the Paris flight Lindbergh made’ expertly navigated air tours of the United States and good- will flights to Mexico, Central America, South wa Hoos and the West Indies. He followed this up by mapying | moat of the present routes of Pan American Airways. He‘: has been for years technical adviser to Pan American and T.W.A. ‘ With hia wife, the former Anne “Morrow, Lindbergh in 1931 flew “north to the Orient,” meaning to Japan via Canada, Alaska, and Siberia; a sensational achievement for those days. In 1933, the flying Lindberghs made what amounted to a world tour by airplane. ' After Lindbergh had made government-chaperoned ‘Inspections of the Russian and German air forces, he reported that the Ruasian air force was greatly overrated, and thet the German air force was very strong and growing more so. ; This made all the Russia-lovers and many of the liberals ‘fn this country hopping mad. They didn't get any leas mad ‘when Lindbergh turned out to have been right about the German air force. It was then that the attempts to amear him as a traitor bought with a Hitler medal had their birth. The Russia-lovers will doub{less be madder still if ix aome day proved right about the Russian air force. s s td] lat the same press conference at which he called Lild- ‘bargh a copperhead the President remarked about a Niw York Daily News editorial (“Concerning Conqu published Wednesday, April 23) that he His Majesty's was sorry that people who could write o such a dumb editoria) were in such high “Opposition —sisces that they could write or talk like that at all. Well, it’s our business to take it as well as dish it, We try to accept such presidential reproaches with re- spect, while continuing to disagree with the President when jwe feel like it. . ! - Lindbergh’s case is different, though. He fs a flying ‘wizard, a master in all departments of aviation. Maybe the’ # too old (39) for combat flying, but he would be ‘gmvaluable on some big desk job connected with our air - ‘forces in time of war. . And he is a leader of a rather large body of American .thought—the isolationist group. He would be called a ‘principal member of His Majesty’s Opposition if we ‘fn England—-which we may be soon—and would have ‘plete freedom of speech, at least up until the time we . actually in the war. | ——téopyright, 1941, News Syndicste Co., Ine.) | - Ome he