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ss Folloning is the speech of CHARLES A. LINDBERGH as dont verea in Oklahoma citys Oklahoma on August 29, 1941 " "As you li know, I stand with the 1 men and women in Anorica ‘who oppose: our entering this war in Europee There are many reasons why { believe we should not enter the war, I have discussed these reasons freely and openly in artioles and radio addresses during the last two years. I~ have said that I did not believe it was within our power to control the’ or to solve the problems that have existed in Europe since Bauropean history began. I have said that we were hot prepared to wage war abroad successful ly at this time, and that we would not be prepared to do so for months i? not for years to comes vy have’ aid that our per’ chpation in this war would simply ada to bloodshea and prostration in Europe, and bring confusion to our own country. I have said that the United States is strong enough and able enough to protect itself, and that we in America do not have to depend upon any foreign country for our security end welfare. : i a et Se OF SS ere ‘ ” fo these statements and deliefs, I hold as firmly ‘today as ; T have at any time in the past. Developments since the war started have -- : already partially proved them corrects; and I think that y the tine the war i a ends, you will find I have in no way misled yous.- But tonight, I an “going to lay aside the broader Assues 0 : the war, and talk to you about air power, its capabilities, its Limitations, ~- .: ; and its consequences. I have selected air power as my subject for two reasons, - ; First, because of its great military importance; and second, because aviation hoo . bas become a symbol of this modern, scientific and mechanized era in which we live. Germany hes used aviation to change the entire technique of warfare . doth on land and on the sea. England is using aviation to strike back at oo... ® continent she is unable to invade. The American interventionists are. usin aviation to justify the ocoupation of Iceland, to prepare the way for Poor. . @0 vooupation of Africa, and to add to the general hysteria of the war. The toe capitalists are using aviation to make money, and the Saspeyer is finding aviation a more and more expensive item on his Dalle ‘ I spent many years of my ‘life surveying end “teyiog out ‘air. routes “in North and South America, and across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. ° Qne of the greatest problems I encountered in those years lay in the dife © .- ficnlty of persuading people that aviation was actually a practical from of transportation; that, some day, this country would be spanned in a single night by passenger oarrying air-liners -~ and that, eventually, even the oceans thenselves would be flown on regular schedule, y : That was only a little over 10 years ago. Wow I fina nyseié . in the novel position of arguing that aviation has certain limitetions e : have all of the other inventions of man. Ten years ago, I was trying to égonvinoe the soverment and the people of this country that transoceanic