MYSTERIOUS ACTIVITY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 19, 2 November 1938, Page 6

MYSTERIOUS ACTIVITY

COLONEL LINDBERGH. INQUIRY"AS TO MOTIVES. LONDON, October 17. “What is Lindbergh up'to?” asks the “Sunday Express” in a heading to a leading article .“How does he come to be Europe’s busy-body?” The article reads:— ‘ 'What is the mysterious, secretive,' curiously overpublicised Lindbergh doing? Always, when there is trouble, his black and orange aeroplane flies him to the storm-centre. “He tells everyone whom he talks to in this country that German warplanes are better than ours, and that Germany is producing machines at a faster rate. Then he adds that an Anglo-German pact is the only way in which Britain can avoid disaster. Recently he returned from Russia to spread a story that the Russian Air Force was useless. “When the Czech crisis was developing Lindbergh went to Franco to tell the same story there. The story shook French confidence in the Soviet as a potential ally. It may have had a considerably influence on the AngloFrench decisions. “If Lindbergh is so frank about the air forces of Germany and Russia, he is probably equally expansive about the British Air Force when he is in Germany. Does ho represent anybody, or is he merely a. somewhat indiscreet private person?”

“Hired liar” was the term applied to Colonel Lindbergh in an article in the Soviet newspaper “Pravda,” signed by 11 of Russia’s greatest flyers. They referred to Lindbergh as a “political speculator acting under the orders of British reactionaries.”