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Charles Lindbergh — Part 12
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he said, "ve need only stop askine fer wer. Ve ene ISBUS te etteck us
and “0 O°] is ine pesition to de se."
"rindberphs werds have breupht dern en evelenche ef critielerse Apein
he has been called pro-rerman, snti-srericen snd weny ether things
vhich tle certainly is net. Fis critics seem te ferget thet fects
nes insults s*euld he presented in en sreument. We're net experts en
var er serenautice, yet it seers te vs thet Tintbergh cadled upen net
enly his wide knevledpe but #lse aound comien sense vhen be esrerted
that Arerice eould not be cencuered by cipsntic besbing planes UVACCO'P
by an srry eng TTOUSATDS ef emeall bembers and pursuit planes. An@ on
InvaADdrI™ + “He said, "could not be transported te t* is EV'ISPEMRE
unless the were divisions and vir anene eur ovn peoples”™...e. Civil
is what be ceant there.
Lindbere edveceted a streng defense. So dees the yvriter. He urres us
te "puard Ararican todoy as eur forefsthers puarded it in the pest. They
ven teig country fran Eurepe with 8 handful ef KEVOLUTIO LEV selefiers.
We certainly cen hele it ney vith ap pepula- ion ef 130 “ILLIO people.
If we cannet we sre unverthv te have it. But the course we heve been
fellowing in rece. t months lesde neither te strength ner frierdship
ner peace. It wil] Jeeve us hsted by the victer snd vannuisted slike,
RUGARDTUESS ef which wey the tide of bettle turns. Our side will cleim
that we sided its erevies; the ether, thet ve did ret help eneurrs To t
successful] in indern werfere ep notion mist prenprre for many yeers before
the fishting sterte...Years ace we decifed te ster eut of foreion vers,
» besed eur cilitery nelicv on thet decisien. “se rust net wever now
i
nhet the crisis is st hend., “here is so lenrer “I'E fer us to enter the
var successfully 2
Sov we cere beck to the ACT OF "+R the President is shevt te cermit
WITHOUT the censent of the Arerican preple.
The averace firerican citizen and veter firmly believes thet the SALE
TED sirplsnes, cannen, small pune and inplements
Flo S--the Allies--is perfectly “Jeral.”
Aceerding te Internatianeal Taw this is net se--it de ILTNGsL end
is paged in carring s dire perelty for tre Americer pw ople--it
plunges us inte “ar inmedictely! The Haoue convention ef 1907, the
U. S. Meutrality Act ef 1918 and the Rritisr Poreien Enlist ient ict
of 1°70 state it is "ILTRCAL™ fer » natier "OT st ver te "furnish"
ACY belligerent with "treeps, ships, anunitiers ef ver, “OMY er with
cemedities of Direct er Indirect use in wer" A privete individuel can
Ge it at his 6 riek..vitnerss the punerusners of the Sevth érpricen
countries--cenmonly called in errer--demecrecies--8]) rules th ough
and because ef revelutions end by dictatorel...So we "se?" these things
te as individuel---cr de ve?
It is sn ACT OF "AR te furnish a verrine nstion with wer enviprert
helencioe te 8 UNNTRAL nstia m--er @ nen-belli-erent netion. "his is ne
action "SYORT OF "AR"--I7 IS ‘AR!
tery envipiert hy
with @ bettlearip full ef Arericsn
heve--and that inst ection short ef wer-- it IS wert
And that ie where this clever Vittle schere for compulsory treining
for eur beys comes ine-et thie Tete dete. "
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