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Died. Harold Knutson, 72, longtime Republican U.S. Representative from Minnesota (1917-49); of a heart ailment; in Wadena, Minn. Norwegian-born, he succeeded Charles A. Lindbergh, father of the flyer, in Congress, cast his first vote in 1917 against a declaration of war on Germany, was a leading isolationist before and after Pearl Harbor, stoutly fought the Democrats and all their works on almost every issue,* including the easing of immigration restrictions...
Thus, with laconic drama, the ninth British Everest expedition told of the conquest of earth's highest spire. In reaching the roof of the world simply because it is there, the New Zealander and the Sherpa mountaineer had done what Columbus, Scott and Lindbergh had gloriously done before: asserted that puny man can measure all things earthly...
Today visitors can hunt down such varied exhibits as the stuffed carcass of "Winchester" (once called Rienzi), General Phil Sheridan's horse; the bones of "Swanky Dan," a prize bull; Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, a collection of dresses worn by former First Ladies; a collection of fleas from G.I.s in Korea. Last year, if there had been room, the Smithsonian staff could have displayed 607,354 new acquisitions, including a couple of Japanese eels, an adjustable, double-ended wrench (circa 1856), 18 boxes of bricks from the White House renovation, one astral lamp (complete with glass...
...Lindbergh had done this for the Communist instead of the Nazi cause, you may be sure that the professional patriots would already be easing his work off the newsstands. After all, the public should not, they could say, line the pocket of any man who supports such causes, be he a Lindbergh, a Chaplain or just a name in Red Channels...
...majority of liberal intellectuals were really sqeamish about extending liberties to the extreme right, they would have protested this new glorification of Lindbergh. If they were still concerned only with Hitlerism (instead of the more inclusive police state methods of which it was just one variety), they would have condemned the Post for giving publicity to the man who lent so much prestige to the Nazi movement in the thirties. That they did not (and this is not an isolated case) can only suggest that perhaps the great bulk of liberal intellectuals, as opposed to their most conservative opponents...