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"In the year following the Paris flight Lindbergh made" expertly navigated air tours of the United States and wil, flights to Mexico, Central America, South America, and the West Indies. He followed this up by mapping mort of the present routes of Pan American Airways. He'‘ has been for years technical adviser to Pan American and T.W.A. With his wife, the former Anne “Morrow, Lindbergh in 1931 flew “north to the Orient,” meaning to Japan via Canada, Alaska, and Siberia; a sensational achievement for those days. In 1933, the flying Lindberghs made what amounted to a world tour by airplane. After Lindbergh had made government-chaperoned Inspections of the Russian and German air forces, he reported that the Russian air force was greatly overrated, and that the German air force was very strong and growing more so. This made all the Russia-lovers and many of the liberals {n this country hopping mad. They didn't get any less mad when Lindbergh turned out to have been right about the German air force. It was then that the attempts to amear him as a traitor bought with a Hitler medal had their birth. The Russia-lovers will doubtless be madder still if is some day proved right about the Russian sir force. os « © (At the same press 1 conference at which he called Likd- bérgh a copperhead the President remarked about a Nyw York Daily News editorial (“Concerning Conquereri,” published Wednesday, April 23) that he His Majesty's was sorry that people who could write ° such a dumb editoria) were in such high position — pisces that they could write or talk like that at all. Well, it’s our business to take it as well az dish tit. We try to accept such presidential reproaches with re- spect, while continuing to disagree with the President when we feel like it. . : - Lindbergh's case is different, though. He {s a flying ‘wizard, a master in all departments of aviation. Maybe ‘he’s too old (89) for combat flying, but he would be ‘invaluable on some big desk job connected with our air forces in time of war. ; And he is a leader of a rather large body of American thought—the isolationist group. He would be called a principal member of His Majesty’s Opposition if we a in England—-which we may be soon—and would have ‘plete freedom of speech, at least up until the time we t actually in the war. ——thopyright, 1941, News Synionte Co., Jae)