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INDBERGH RETREATS, After an awkward delay, Charles A. Lindbergh has been forced to take cogni- zance of widespread public criticism of his recent remarks anent a “change in Jeader-| ship,’ for this country. He now denies that’ any of his utterances along this line were directed against the President, He says that his call for new leadership was aimed at “in- terventionists,” at the “leadership of the op- [position which we (the nation) have been following.” The explanation is weak. .Nearly all of! lLindbergh's pronouncements in recent months have been directed specifically, st some point, against Mr. Roosevelt. He has - Tepeatediy insinuated that the President is \the ringleader of a war party bent upon leading the people, by subterfuge, to their own destruction. “Neither I nor anyone else on the Amer- -ica First Committee advocates proceeding by anything but constitutional methods,” he says. But he said nothing about constitu- tional ‘methods when advising his following, in a recent article, that “you and I and peo- ple like us” must “take the reins in hand.” It seems obvious thet Mr. Lindbergh ts crawling. He has been forced to beat an un- dignified retreat from a dangerous position. Nevertheless, we consider his disavowal of! treasonous intent s hopeful sign of the grow- ing force of an aroused public opinion. Let lus hear, next, similar disavowals from Sen- -ator Wheeler and others who have preached tha “new leadership” text. Lindbergh at- ‘temgts to speak for them, also. But, ef] courbs, he cannot do that. The others mutt “ for themselves. SSS O5- UW Y49-1 CHICAGO DAILY NEWS