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Charles Lindbergh — Part 14
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Director,
March 7, 1941
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possibility of going into the war, May I quote him now? ‘we
are committed to full support of all those resolute people
overseas who are resisting aggression. To those countries we
must give full aid.! If we are to give full aid everywhere,
isn't it a heevy task, but the President believes in doing
things in a big wey, for instance, the deficit.
"He said that the United States will never sanction
any peace dictated by ageressors and sponsored by aggressors.
Does he mean that we are not going to avcrove a peace until we
prove it not to be dictated by an aggressor? I say that the
day that a peace treaty is signed in this war, it will be a
happier day than the war that this Administration is pernitting
by sending arms to kill Europe. (Applause)
"Can you see why some of us fear such a foreign policy?
In the beginning of such a policy, remember that the American
taxpayer is going to lease, lend, loose and pay the bill out of
his own pocket and what is more important, we shall have to
send the American boys to fight somebody else's war. Let's
take care of our own first.
"To those who say that this is our war and that we
should send everything possible to England but men, I want to
eay that if this is our war ané England is fighting our war, let
us have the courage to fight with our men, dut this is not our
war and let's stay out of it.
"Europe h-s deen constantly fighting and has fought
over four hundred vars since Columbus discovered America. They
have fought, they've been fighting, they are fighting and it's
none of our business.
"Our own Secretary of Commerce, Jesse Jones, let the
cat out of the bag when he said that "Vetre in the war,* and
then he caught himself and said, ‘We're nearly in the war,#
then he said, 'We're preparing for the war and all the others
are texing uy that cry.' I say to the Aém’nistration and to the
President that the foreign policy of Washington is dragcing us
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