CRIME IN AMERICA
FAMOUS WRITER'S OUTBURST. New York, March 10. "This country is disgraced by its lawlessness and the supine submission to the rule of criminals, gangsters, and racketeers of all kinds." Such is the stinging comment on the Lindbergh kidnapping by Arthur Brisbane, famous leader writer for the Hearst press, all papers of which display the editorial on their front page. The caustic comment of London papers on crime's reign in America is accepted by leading United States journals. "You might think we were a nation of idiots, to see our Government busying itself with the affairs and needs of other countries, while showing not the faintest ability to suppress crime at home," continues Arthur Brisbane. "There is no nation on earth calling itself even half-civilised where there is not better internal government, with greater safety for the citizens, than in this country of prohibition, racketeering, bootlegging, and lawlessness."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3447, 24 March 1932, Page 8
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150CRIME IN AMERICA King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3447, 24 March 1932, Page 8
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