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Sateen | a wy | ~ Colonel Lindbergh Tues! April 29, 1941 Axis propagandists have played up Col Lindbergh's remarks for all they aye worth, not only in’the press of Ger- many and Italy, and in the satellite nations of the European continent, but in Latin America as well Writing from Quito, Ecuador, for instance, Harold Callender, of the New York Times, de- clares that Col. Lindbergh's utterances and those of his wife “have been widely reproduced in the pro-German press in South America,” and that he “again amekes the first pages of all newspapers with statements like those the Germans and pro-Germans have been making.” This is very disturbing news at a time when our national policy rests upon con- tinental solidarity. In undermining s Geclared national policy, and in making himself the spokesman of a point of view which gives such valuable ald and comfort to the enemies of mankind, Col. Lindbergh has taken a very considerable responsibility upon himself. What makes his position sJl_the more vulnerable is” j that with all his plain speaking of , wi ears he has never voi Hable of protest t_Nazi_actions | which have outraged civilized opinion. : This is something to ponder over. j Equally astonishing is the fact that, | while saying that the downfall of Brit- ain would be a tragedy for us, he takes such a negative pesition as an amateur policy-maker toward preventing it. Now, in pique over a remark made on ‘ the subject of defeatists by President } Roosevelt at a recent press conference, ; Col. Lindbergh has resigned his com- 3 mission in the Army Air Corps Reserve. ‘The rightness or wrongness of his action i is a subsidiary matter, though it might be pointed out that had he been called into active service, as has happened to eo many other reserve officers, he could not have been able to make the speeches he has been making. Our main concern |- is ‘that this ection, too, will be seized upon by Axis propagandists to persuade j, their gullible dupes that the United : Spates is a Nation divided within iteelf. Thus the colonel continues, wittingly or unwittingly, to be the most effective ally ‘Uf the Axis standpoint on the war in this country. It is not the least tragic aspect of the situation that he is so firmly and so honestly convinced thst in so doing _be is rendering patriotic oorvice So & to the “Wation. . 2 j N i r b ee rei awe Sse a _-