COLONEL LINDBERGH CRITICIZED

Southland Times, Issue 23954, 21 October 1939, Page 5

COLONEL LINDBERGH CRITICIZED

MRS ROOSEVELT COMMENTS ON SPEECH MONTREAL, October 19. Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt, writing in her column “My Day,” and commenting on Colonel Charles E. Lindbergh, said she had sensed in his speech a “sympathy with Nazi ideals which I thought existed, but could not bring myself to believe was really there.” Mr Gene Tunney, the former heavyweight boxing champion, in an address said that he had been shocked by the “impertinence of some of Colonel Lindbergh’s declarations, especially that concerning Canada,” and he could not understand how Colonel Lindbergh, who had sheltered in England, could suddenly desert that country. Mr Tunney characterized Colonel Lindbergh’s acceptance of Herr Hitler’s declaration as a grave mistake. It required “great nerve and ambition” for Colonel Lindbergh to return and tell Americans how they should think. “We should protect ourselves from a repetition of this,” he declared. “The war in Europe is not for a balance of power but to determine whether we are going to follow the dictates of Christianity or atheism. Before submitting to communish or fascism 'I would go down with a bullet in my breast.”