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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 114, 16 May 1941, Page 10

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POLITICS AND WAR

CRITICISM OF LINDBERGH

Charles Lindberg's attitude toward the war was the subject of unfavourable criticism by a number of passengers who arrived in Auckland to-day by the Matson liner Monterey. "I and my friends were inexpressibly annoyed at the speeches made by Lindberg." said Dr. Lynn Harold Hough, dean of the Drew Theological Seminary. Xew Jersey, who "is on his way to Sydney. "I should say that outside a proGerman group Lindherg has very little influence in the United States." he added. Dr. Hough said that it was significant that every time that Lindberg delivered an address on the need for America to keep out of the war his mother-in-law. Mrs. Morrow, an influential woman in the States, also delivered an address taking the opposite view. "You ask me what is the attitude of the people to the utterances of Lindberg." saitl Mr. O. 1-f. Grimwade. a director of the chemical firm of Felton Grimwade and Companv, Melbourne. "They seem to think that sitting ri.'i hours in the cockpit of an aeroplane crossing the Atlantic Ocean does not qualify'a man as an expert in war strategy and international politics." he said. "Onlv a noisy few subscribe to his views." Mr. Grimwade has been visiting America on behalf (if the Commonwealth Directorate of Munitions Production and he spent a considerable portion of his time consulting members of the British Purchasing Commission. The neonle generally were with Great Britain. Dr. 11. P. Trehev. a Catholic priest, who returned to New Zealand to-dav after five years' study at the Catholic University of America, said that Americans admired T.indberc for his sincerity, and while they were willing to concede that he was a patriotic American, thev were inclined to doubt his abilit.v as an expert on economic and political subjects.