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Washington and Incorporated In the Monroe Doctrine: it recommends the maintenance -f armed forces sufficient todefe ' emisphere from attack by a {nation of | foreign powers. % .is as the policy of the America First Committee to- dsy. It is a policy, not of isolation, but of Independence; not of-defeat but of courage." . sep He declared in his closing para- graphs that he was addressing him- self to “the people who must do the paying, and the fighting, and the dying, if thia country enters the Mrs. Norris Makes Ples ; Colonel Lindbergh was preceded by Kathleen Norris, novelist, who came om Hollywood to address the meeting. ty al “Every nation in Europe has quarreled with avery other nation,” she sald. ‘They speak to us now of defending democracy and defend- in ] ing a certain type of Hving. There is no democracy there. And thelr sort of Hving never has been ours, nerefore we are just eeling that, although a oruel an nbalanced dictator has arisen { it bas 1; n Phe past, when he Gren ou XIV, Crom nilip of Sp d Napoleon ave all caused to panic, in turn. nd, az we can poin no histori- ak instance {fn n invade asbrer din th ed coun- rin Eur@e, we ifmin a few years, aiés® despots 4 isappear, and these peoples IW return ormality and,to the t we saw in them az0, ge kn he hearts of those a na great r 8 War, "AD han imour own, — “Ourfirat ling >t defense iz, il glvays be, our he o navy, inate wiil e pro- act Us ig our own pavy. army u which may rely, and which gs'an army unbeaten as yet in histary, ig our army. These we wilt MapPort, th®se we will main tain, and in these we will put ou confidence. For America, if she i to continue America, there can b course.” yon E @ meeting had been offered to the three major broadcasting chains, but that they found it impossible to make space for it among their com- | mercial broadcasts. The only sta- tion carrying it, he seid, was WMCA, > 7 AX announcement was made later by WMCA that it would carry a re- Ply to Colonel Lindbergh to be made at 10 o'clock tonight at a relly of the Fight far om weewee rece 2 AYO Boye and a detachment of Britis} who were to have been th of honor at their social, Were stopped outside, - In front of the build crowds stood in the rain t line established -in the m the street listening to the : as they came over the louds, Persons active in nearly organizations opposing Unite intervention in the war o1 Britain were noted fn the but they were present as pr dividuals and members of th: fea First Committee em- that they had no offictal ec with the rally. United States flags we about the walls and balcon! the hall and patriotic emble on sale. Nearly everybody # amall American flag. One of the early arriva the hall was J, F. Con: “Jafale” of the Lindbergh ping case, who was Invited the platform, . g Among the more than (Tive persons on the platfo mer Represeolaiive. .Bruoe (Mr. Brat , Dr. Hunt | is, daughter CHALLENGES LINDBI Davenport Says if We | Civilization Will Be Ru Russell W. Davenport, « Fortune, Magazine, devia night from a prepared adc Nvered over the Columbis casting System immediate Colonel Lindbergh's speech lange the latter's position. “Here in New York toni said, ‘‘we have heard an a by & distinguished Americ one! Charles A. Lindbergh. of that argument has America should shun her | bilities as a member of th of nations, He urges us to | alone our responsibilities nations, but our reaponsib ourselves for the preserv. our own fine way of life. “The sum and substane this talk is that we have sponsibilities in maintain own civilization, the civiliz freedom. We should mind business and not meddle | People's affairs. “It is an easy argument t because it offers an easy 3 Ite theme {fs that we don't do anything about our own tion. But before we accept easy Idea we must be dou! of certain things. “Are we sure, for examp a victory of the totalitarian Committees with Rex Stout and | will have no effect on the fh oP. Warb as speakers, 7eeause of ihe crush outside, the police admitted only 1.500 persons te the overflow euditorium om the geventh floor of the building. But these Hstaners aiishlaye? Paved enthusiastic m per, though there waa dinned iustily inte their eare all evening the air of aE wilt Senk War Ye res’ - bars see Bilon who were helding their monthly social on the floor ow, : . ihe British veterans gained ao- cess to their meeting with the qveatest difficulty, Three hundred of tham, in fact, were unable to get fate the building at all. The band America? Can we honestly a the world will be the same if Hitler wins this wart La eareful tm our answer, Fo make a molstake—if thie cris out to be our crisis after 2 we waquld awake from our of isolation to find our elv: wrecked and our future rul: - Declaring that Hitler wi ing s viclent ‘counter-rev! against the democratic wa} that America established in olution in 1776, Mr. Davenp that as long as any fres pe jeft in the world the attac: continue and that if Hitler eontinus to conquer, his re would fafl. ee ee ae