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However, Charles Lindbergh, principal agitator against
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Later in April Lindbergh addressed the America First
Committee in |
Graciously, Lindbergh did not blame |
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On |
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All three of these
speeches were delivered prior to the German invasion of the |
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In September 1941 Lindbergh increased his venom and
started to blame "The British, the Jews, and the |
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Writing about
Lindbergh's speech in 1989, a Yale graduate and former editor of American Heritage publications regarded the
subject of Jews and war as unmentionable. The
country did not choose to debate pressure by Jews. Lindbergh
had violated a sacred taboo.[viii] That sly old
Quaker, Herbert Hoover, had advised that after a long time in politics one should learn
not to say things just because they were true. The supreme act of a sovereign state that of going to war was to be
subordinated to a principle that Jews must not be offended.
This cowardly retreat has continued to this day and has marked the deference
the |
[The British also have had a difficult time in remembering
the deal between Hitler and Chamberlain was widely popular at home. Very few Britons were prepared to fight for |
[i]. Col Charles A. Lindbergh, Vital Speeches of the Day, pp266-7,Vol VII, "We are not prepared for war" testimony
by Lindbergh before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on
[ii]. NYT,
[iii]. Lindbergh, Vital
Speeches of the Day, pp424-6, Vol VII, "We Cannot Win This War for
[iv]. Lindbergh, Vital
Speeches of the Day,
[v]. Commonweal,
p532,
[vi]. Wayne S. Cole, Charles A. Lindbergh and the Battle Against American
Intervention in World War II, pp171-85 (Harcourt, Brace, 1974)
[vii]. Edmund Wilson, Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the
American Civil War, pxxvi (Oxford Press, 1962)
[viii]. Richard K. Ketchum, The Borrowed Years: 1938-1941, pp640-3 (Random
House, 1989)
[ix]. Walter Millis editor, The Forrestal Diaries, pp121-2 (Viking Press,
1951)