LINDBERGH’S SPEECH

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 October 1939, Page 7

LINDBERGH’S SPEECH

SYMPATHY WITH NAZISM MRS. ROOSEVELT’S COMMENT j [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN.—COPYBIGHT.] • (Recd. October 20 12.40 p.m.) MONTREAL October 19. Mrs Roosevelt in her column, “My Day,” commenting on Colonel Lindbergh, said she had sensed in his speech “sympathy with Nazi ideals, which I thought existed, but could not bring myself to believe was really there.” GENE TUNNEY SHOCKED. . BOSTON, October 19.. Gene. Tunney, in an address, said he was shocked by the impertinence of some of Colonel Lindbergh’s declarations, especially concerning Canada. He could not understand how Lindbergh, who had sheltered in England, could suddenly desert that country. Tunney characterised Lindbergh’s acceptance of Herr Hitler’s decoration as a grave mistake. It required “great nerve and ambition” for Lindbergh to return and tell Americans how they should think. “We should, protect ourselves from a repetition of this,” he added. “The war in Europe is not for balance of power, but to determine whether we are going to follow the dictates of Christianity or atheism. Before submitting to Communism or Fascism, I will go down with a bullet in my breast.”