“INSULT TO CANADA”

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20074, 21 October 1939, Page 5

“INSULT TO CANADA”

LINDBERGH BROADCAST

CENSURE BY SENATOR

(Reed. Oct. 21, noon.) WASHINGTON. Oct. 20

Colonel Charles Lindbergh’s broadcast, which is belatedly causing more and more comment, became an important increment in the Senatorial debate to-day when Senator Brown meticulously dissected and condemned the aviator’s viewpoint, which he called a “gratuitous insult” to Canada.

“Clearly this is a plain statement that Canada must cut her last tie with the Mother Country,” he said. "I condemn his remarks because they lend encouragement to the spirit of nationalistic imperialism that has cursed the world for centuries and which is the potent poison that lias killed peace.

"I would have the world know that he did not speak for America. A little contemplation shows the absurdity of the position of Lindbergh. Suppose Canada, as is a fact, intends to send an army abroad and permits the establishment of a British naval base, what are we going to do about it? We cannot say we will not help in the event of a foreign invasion. This is protection to ourselves, not to Canada.”

A message from Newark states that Mr. Hugh Johnson termed Mrs. Roosevelt’s comment on the Lindbergh broadcast as "exactly the kind of stuff which got us into the war in 1917.”