Lindbergh Condemns European Influence in U.S.A.

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 244, 16 October 1939, Page 8

Lindbergh Condemns European Influence in U.S.A.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. Colonel Charles Lindbergh, broadcasting over the national network, urged the maintenance of the arms embargo and virtually demanded that Britain and other European Powers get out of the Western Hemisphere in case they drag the United States into the war. “Sooner or later,” he said, “we must demand the freedom of this continent and the surrounding islands from the dictates of the European -Powers. American history clearly indicates this

need. As long as European Powers maintain influence in our hemisphere we are likely to find ourselves involved in their troubles. They will lose no opportunity to involve us. “We desire the utmost friendship with the people of Canada,” said Colonel Lindbergh. “If ever they are attacked, our navy will be defending their seas, our soldiers will fighfr on their battlefields, and our fliers will die in their skies. But have they the right to draw this hemisphere into a European war simply because they prefer the crown of England to American independence?”