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sys ADIL 2a : 1st” ‘ + -— _Keaisteen Norris, “ qnd despite the yee eye abn aie ‘ i Anais SERRE ee reer oe SRE Be ea . “BRITAIN SEATE N, U.S. SANT |) HELP, LINDY TELLS 28,000 eitain arn Bee ‘, '. Great ‘ig lasing the war? Lie? g ee ee Pd ‘the iT rf as VAIS Ee he A. cai a0, “regardless of how much’ assistance we extend,” can turn the tide, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh declared last night in warning jam-packed meeting at Manhat- tan Center, 34th St. and Eighth Ave., against in , rr ee - Five ‘thousand. persons crowded into the main bal- “(Continued fror Jrom” page ‘27° room, 3,000 more listened over when he took his ge, seat on the same a public address aystem on a lower floor and 20,000 stopped Jatform with ohn ondon, the Bronx school teacher aid $50,000 of Lindbergh's traffic in 34th St. to gather money in a futile attempt to ran- as she ad- dressed meeting last night, around ‘amplifiers ‘as Lind- bergh spoke. One or two fist ’ fights, and a brief flurry when 20 students attempted to picket the meeting, were quickly squelched by 250 po- ice. “sy ’ Not naval convoys, not fleets of "airplanes and not another A. E. F.! could stop the sweep of Hitlerism,-: Lindbergh said, yet ‘the British’ “have one last ‘desperate plan re-' maining” to “persuade us to send ’ another American Expeditionary Ferce to Europe and to share with England militarily, as well as fi- nancially, the fiaseo of this war.” England and France never had . “a reasonable chance of winning” against Hitler’s challenge, Lind- | bergh asserted, and for that rea- son he hat “constantly advocated 2 - Hegotiated Pesce” “France now been defeated: propaganda and eonfasion of recent months, it is now obvious that England is losing the war,” he said. “I believe this ix rezlized even by the British Government.” - | Tt was chosred ‘ood: Sate PSs Sa —_— {Continued on page 18, cal.1) So i ee som the flier’s kidnaped baby in 1932, Linlbergh was cheered again when he asserted England was “Josing the war,” Crowds began gathering outside the auditorium an bour before the doors were opened at 6:15 P, M. and by 7:25 FP, M. the jam waa so terrific that the Fire Department called a halt on later arrivals. : Traffic Detoured. ~ - Before 8 P, M, the thousands in the street were so crushing that an fraffic was rerouted and the police patrol] was increased from 60 to 250 men, all under command of Deputy Chief hispector John J. Di Martino. About 8:15 P. M. a group of 15 beys and five girls, members of |i the Student Defenders of Dem- ocracy and allied organizations, paraded along the fringe of the throng with banners denouncing Hitler, Police shooed them away when some man in the crowd made a threatening gesture toward them. Lindbergh spoke pnder auspices of the America First Committee. ‘He assailed England for promising >gid to any and all nations that ‘would join her cause—aid that, he said, she could not give. “We know that she misinformed them,” he said, “as she has mis- jnformed us, concerning her state]! her military]. of preparation, strength and the progress of the ‘War s+ : “Hopeless Odds.” “We in this country have a right to think of the welfare of America first, just as the people in England thought of their own country when they encouraged the smaller na- tions of Europe to fight against hopeleas odds. When England asks ws to enter this war, she is con- sidering her own future and that ef her empire. In making our reply, I believe we should consider the future of the United States]. and that of the Western Hemi- |; sphere” As ee eee Se Be Ss ye | tervention. | Sr are nt £5. Cate gee Bee “Even if we were e folly prepare f Lindbergh argued, there ig_ not enough janding ¢ ace on the Brit- jsh Isles for airplane squadrons to match those of Germany. There js no place, he said, where we might base and maintain an army we hed an army samnearahle —if WE SGA ELGe Aa bey Sana pees ara to Germany's. “We have weakened ourselves for many months, and still worse, we have divided our own people by 1 this dabbling in Europe's wars, he said, “While we should have been concentrating on American defense, we have been forced to argue over foreign quarrels. “Tyrn Our Faith Back.” . - “We must turn our eyes and our faith back to our own country be- fore it is too late. And when we do this, a different vista opens be- | fore us. Practically every diffi- | _culty we would face in invading Europe becomes an asset to ua in defending America. . . “The United States is "better sit- tuated from a military eatandpoint | re Se than any other nation in the world. ven in our present condition of ,anpreparedness, no foreign power ‘is in @ position to invade us today. | ‘If we concentrated on our own de- fense, and build the strength thet this nation should maintain, no foreign army will ever attempt to nd on American shores.” 1 The real enemies of democracy, he said, are those who ery for in- tervention while “more than &0 percent.” of the population opposes war, “We have been Jed" toward war? lr a minority of ovr jsaid. “This minority E has influence... But it does not | enrocent ¢he Awmorisne ronnie eves y Ge SRL dl PCVpPUt. “Incredible” —Walsh. Upited States Senator David. Walsh of Massachusetts preceded | Lindbergh as a speaker, asserting | that “incredible ss it may stem, letters are now reaching the desks of members of the Congress strongly urging an open declara- tion of war,” Kathleen Norris, the novelist, ; urged Aniertcane th remember that 4#BRurane line hase sen EUropt Has Deen at War for a ousand years” and that we have io. place in quarrels im which every borderline has been soaked, each Eenerationy. with young re ee ieee e os ople,” AS Rewer Sv,