Bitter Comment By Senator Pittman

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

Bitter Comment By Senator Pittman

PRESUMPTUOUS AND OFFENSIVE Received Sunday 7.20 p.m. NEW YORK, Oct. 14. Reaction to Colonel Lindbergh’s broadcast showed that the group favouring the repeal of the arms embargo mostly criticised it and the opponents of the embargo repeal mostly praised it. Senator Key Pittman, in a very bitter attack, said: “Colonel Lindbergh’s statement encourages the ideology of tho totalitarians and is subject to the construction that he approved of their brutal conquests. I admire Colonel Lindbergh’s accomplishments in the air but history has not disclosed that he has had the same experience in statesmanship and military affairs.” An Ottawa message states that Canadian Ministers took the stand that the Lindbergh statement is not a matter for Government consideration since he was a private citizen.

Tho Toronto Daily Star, in a leader under the title of “Offensive Lindbergh Address,” says the speech was presumptuous and offensive in some of its references to Canada. Fortunately it docs not represent the attitude of the vast majority of our good neighbours in the south. Colonel Lindbergh would detach Canada from her British connection and refuse it the right to prefer tho crown of England to American independence. “It is pure Hitlerism doctrine—that the stronger country should have the liberty to override the wishes of the weaker. It is not representative of United States opinion. The United States has no more right to say whether Canada should go to war *han Canada to say whether the United States should have gone to war many years ago with Spain.”