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‘ a oie RI aE _ Five thousand. persons’ crowded into the main ball. room, 3,000 more listened over a public address system on a Jower floor and 20,000 stopped traffic in 34th St. to gather DAILY NEWS, PHURSHAP. AP Keinicen Norris, as she ad- dressed meeting last night around ‘amplifiers ‘as Lind- kergh spoke. One or two fist fights, and a brief flurry when} 20 students attempted to; picket the meeting, were quickly squelched by 250 po-| dicen ye (: _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 Force to Europe and to share with England militarily, as well as fi- Rancially, the fiaseo of this war.” England and France never had “a reasonable chance of winning” against Hitler’s challenge, Lind- » osthe hag “eatetantts Lavessned c e ‘co! won i has “con antiy adv 2 “France has now been defeated; and despite the propaganda and eonfasion of recent months, it is now obvious that England is losing! the war,” he said “I believe this Government” : Lindbergh yes cheered Joody! (Continued on page 18, cal.1) - } ZEA (Continued from page 2)" when he took his seat on the same latform with fohn. i mdon, the Bronx school teacher faid $50,000 of Lindbergh’s money in a futile attempt to ran- gom the flier’s kidnaped baby in 1932. Linlbergh was cheered again when he asserted England was “osing the war.” ° Crowds began gathering outside the auditorium an hour before the doors were opened at 6:15 P. M. and by 7:25 P, M. the jam wan 80 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 traffic wes rerouted and the police ‘ patrol was increased from 50 to 250 men, all under command of Deputy Chief Sispector John J. Di Martino. About 8:15 P. M. a group of 15 boys and five girls, members o! 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 nid to any and all nations that ‘would join her cause—aid that, he said, she could not give. “We know that she misinformed them,” be said, “as she has mis- informed ‘us, concerning hor state cof preparation, her military Strength and the progress of the war sss “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 hopeless odds. When England asks us to enter this war, she is con- sidering her own future and that of her empire. In making our reply, I believe we should consider the future of the United States and that of the Western Hemi- aphere.”, ered eres areas ‘argue over foreign quarrels. cope seat SS ESR RE Ren py mee cra oe HELP, LINDY TELLS 28,000 <7". Gréat Britain ‘is losing the war” and nothing the U. S. A. can do, “regardless of how much’ assistance we extend,” can turn the tide, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh declared last night in warning jam-packed meeting at tan Center, 34th St. and Eighth Ave., against intervention. 3° -. | | gS AVE BE AINSY UTERO. Manhat- "Even if we were fully prepared, Lindbergh argued, there is not enough landing gpace on the Brit- jh Isles for airplane squadrons to match those of Germany. There js no place, he said, where we might base and maintain an army it we had an army compereble t Germany’s. “We have weskened ourselves for many months, and still worse, we have divided our own people by | this dabbling in Europe’s wars, he said. “While we should have been concentrating on American @efense, we have been forced to “Turn Qur 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 aaset to us in defending America. .. + - “The United States is better sit- f|, uated from a military standpoint ee than any other nation in the world, |Even in our present condition of /npreparedness, no foreign power is in @ position to invade us today. | “If we concentrated on our own de- fense, and build the strength that this ‘nation should meintain, no foreign army will ever attempt to on American shores.” 2 1, The real enemies of democracy, he said, are those who ery for in- tervention while “more than 80 Ber cent.” of the population opposes war. __“We have been ted toward wart by a minority of our people,” he¢ said. “This minority has power. It has influence. But it does not represent the American people.” “Incredible”—W alsh, . Upited States Senator Dayid_I. Walsh of Massachusetts Preceded | Lindbergh as a speaker, asserting | that “incredible as it may stem, letters are now reaching the desks of meaabere of the Congress strongly urging an di - tion of ware © *™ OPES ™ Kathleen Norris, the novelist, urge remember that ‘Europe has been at war for a jousand years” and that we have place in quarrels in which ‘every borderline has been Bets generation, with young .. pe hee eet ees