THE LINDBERGHS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 35, 11 February 1937, Page 15

THE LINDBERGHS.

MAY BECOME BRITISH. SEEKING NATURALISATION. FAMOUS AIRMAN AS KENTISH SQUIRE. (Special.—By Air Mall.t LONDON. January 23. After just a year's exile as refugees from the terrorism of American gangsters, Colonel and Airs. Charles Lindbergh are understood to have derided to become naturalised British citizens as soon as the law permits them to do so. It is believed that they will shortly take out naturalisation papers for themselves and for their three-year-old son, Jon. At Long Barn, a red-walled fifteenth century house which stands amid a belt of trees not far from the remote Kentish village of Weald, near Sevenoaks, the Lindberghs have spent the happiest months they have known for years. And now they are to know an even greater happiness, for, according to reports in the village. Mrs. Lindbergh is expecting another child. Villagers who have watched Charles Lindbergh playing with sturdy solemnfaced Jon, and seen him drive down the village street in a fast grey car, or soar above the ancient trees in his new orange-and-black monoplane, have come to accept this famous exiled trio as friendly, unassuming neighbours.

"The straightest, kindest man I have ever met," was the verdict of a garage worker on Colonel Lindbergh. "Though he doesn't take an active part in the life of our village, he helps all the village causes, and has just given us a geherous contribution to the church funds and village institute. At Christmas he remembered everyone in the village who had done him even the smallest service."