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- Ma. CRO en vee. Mr. Ee@@ - Mr. Bans ...,.... ki. Orne Teeen__. . Wanden._...___. Mer. Treey TheRocsevelt-LindberghEpisode In our judgment, however, nothing tnat#h ... fronting the country, the Roosevelt-Lind= SeeEifg to resign his commission as & bergh episode, that has ended in the latter Officer. Fach President is? for the time being, |. tendering his resignation as « reserve officer, Commander in Chief of the Army and Nev ot is greatly to be regretted. At a moment when She United States. Bre the ovals oar wr the nation should be closing ranks and uniting eran sailors and airmen runs to no nai. all its forces for defense, this conspicuous |Vidual. They serve the Republic itself, . example of cleavage is set before the people. it in precisely in such emergencies as the - In justice to the colonel 1t must be frankly Present that the nation most urgently needs |. agreed that the President committed the | its reserve officers. In whatever fashion the first error, The press interview in which Mr. |2#tion can best speed its defenses—whethar | . Roosevelt attacked Col. Lindbergh as an ap- peaser, comparing him to the “Vallandig- hams” of the Civil War, was most unfortu- ' nate from every point of view, It was jaunty Where it should have been eerious, vague | where it should bave been specific, and per-: gonal where if shouki have avoided name calling and discussed the issue. | But the tendency to take an intensely per- gonal attitude toward those who disagree Soa 5 It is the example which Col. Lindbergh has |* set which stems to jis m6 Tegrettablse. Ih & dificult hour like the present many groups : of people, fer a score of different reasoms,{. will inevitably criticise and oppose an Ad-|, ministration, Such is their right. But one's right to debate political issues cannot be per-|- mitted to compromise one’s duty to serve the |. nation. This high obligation rests upon busi- Hess men and workers—to co-operate with the government in the defense program. restz upon the youth to accept military train- Welt’s besetting weaknesses. It formed, ip- deed, ome of the central reasons why this Bewspaper so strongly opposed his re-elec- on. Desplie such opposition, widely shared, be was re-elected. He is the President of the United States in the present crisis, and, as we Dave repeatediy tryed in these columns, jf is the patriotic duty of every American to unite ‘This loyalty salutes a fiag that is no man’ behind his leadership as the only possible tment toward means of saving the American way of work-| P7ivele Manal. No re t nation. ; _ Free debate of public issues is part of that ones an effective opponent, was boping to end danni, St Lindbergh was most certainly papnadentir erwin awd tack and in stressing the issue of speech. nd | CLIPPING FROM THE 6 . a “~ N.Y. HERALD TRIBUNE | | mre APR291941