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‘HAVE YOU QUIT BEATING YOUR WIFE’ C° , LINDBERGH says: “1 would a hundred times rather sea y country ally herself with England or even with Germany with all her favits, than with the cruelty, the godlessn and the barbarism that exists in Soviet Russia.” . "} H In that statement, we think, the Colonel indulges in a device familiar to the practitioners of courthouse oratory—the “have you quit beating your wife?” technique. He implies things which the facts neither connote nor demonstrate to be true—that those ‘Americans who see Germany as the greatest menace to the safety and security of America, and who welcome the diversion created by Russia's entry in the war, must by that token and of necessity ally themselves spiritually or intellectually with Com- munism. His second implication is that America has no choice but to ally herself either with Nazism or Communism. America does not have to make a choice between Communism, and Nazism. The fact is that America has already made her. choice—made it two years ago—and it is neither Communism. nor Nazism. When Russia allied herself with Germany, that was the signal for the war to start. England went in against Ger- many and her ally Russia. And when England went in, America made its choice. America took sides with Britain against both Germany and Russia—against both Communism and Nazism. ‘America has remained steadfast on that election. American blie sentiment stands today where it has stood for two years. t is against Hitler and Nazi world conquest. It is for Britain and for whatever will prevent that conquest. So far as justice ahd decency and humanitarianism are con- cerned—so far as the rights and privileges of individuals are concerned—there is no distinction between Communism and . Nazism; We do not prefer Nazism to Communism or Com- munism to Nazism. We want defeat of dictatorship and of tonques). ~ When—and with a faint “if’—Germany conquers Russia “breeds Naziam to Communism, we wonder with what tol ‘will Col. Lindbergh then view that spawn? _ A 6S MYYIA Te oe | WLS ise WASHINGTON NEWS Page