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Charles Lindbergh — Part 8
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Colonel Lindberg_ says "American Meddling." It seem_to me
America has not meddled enough against Aggressors. But America
has proven to herseif that she could not come forward as a
great united powerful nation. As inexperienced children who
atand and goze — watching their parent countries die -
indecisive children, who turn away from plunder and aurder. —
At least thru watching this dreadful catastrophy America is
only now vaguely realising her own wealmess, her own unpreparedness.
I saw the Englishmen leaving for the front unequipped mentally
and physically, - a nation that wanted to live pescefully in
little houses with gardens, and forget war ever existed. What
happened to the English Intelligence Department and Scotland
Yard is beyond comprehension. Stanley Baldwin is greatly
responsible for Great Britain's unpreparedness.
In the summer of 1932 1 visited Greece and Yugo Slavia.
There motoring thru small remote villares - the children giving
Nazi salutes. I found out in these centers there was a German
physical culture instructor, giving an hour of exercises and m
hour of lecture,
A German maid I had in London last sumer told me it was
compulscry in Germany for men, women and children to attend
daily one hour of exercises and a hout of propaganda lectures
for mind training. - --- The mental training of our
Amorica ojtisens ja most important as a part of preparedness
against uprisings and revolutions that may take place, if Germany
wins this War. Preparedness against mental confusion - indecisiveness
and panic, preperedaess for the unthinking American who 33 influended
_and contaminated by being thrown in contact with foreign agents or
the hermless commercial traveller. Complete organisation and training
for the United States to think straight and clearly should take
place, Perhaps two or three tines a woek a not too long national
letter could be sent and read at all clubs, meetingz, orgenizations,
ete. If thie 4a impractical then the radio should be brought to use.
The people to listen 8 or 10 minutes each evening for a nation-
wide broadcast by the Government, told to watch for un-Anericas
propaganda, and only when one is certain it should be reported” ——
If Germany wing the war ~ this country should not be totelly free
until she is strong enough to find complete unison. To know -
and understand that ea citizens of this U.S.A. there will be no
allowance for internal troubles, se
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