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Charles A. Lindbergh, as durably boyish-looking as any celebrity of modern times, was beginning, at 45, to show signs of wear & tear. Week before in Hong Kong (on airline business, he said), he had asked the press to report practically nothing about him at all; now in Tokyo he forbade photographs; but the press went on working anyway...
Charles A. Lindbergh turned up in Hong Kong on "Pan American Airlines business," gave it a touch of mystery by asking newsmen not to report anything except the bare fact of his arrival...
...Contact With Reality." The greatest of these, and the oldest (53) hand at the game was Adela. The Hearst people had drafted her to give the Overell story the cozy, corny touch she had applied to the Lindbergh and Weyerhaeuser kidnapings, the birth of the Dionne quintuplets, the death of Rudy Valentino. Hearst papers the U.S. over spread her words in big type. Excerpts...
Originally a preacher for the Disciples of Christ, a Middle Western faction, he later associated himself with Huey Long. Father Charles E. Coughlin, and Charles A. Lindbergh in an effort to "maintain a government... which abuses no minority and is abused by no minority...
Charles A. Lindbergh, onetime America Firster, who used to make mind-our-own-business-and-stay-out-of-war speeches, raised his voice after long silence and plumped for "a consistent American policy toward Europe," i.e., full aid to all "peoples who believe in ... a way of life that is basically similar to our own." Observed Lindbergh: "We have destroyed Nazi Germany only to find that ... we have strengthened Communist Russia. . .. We must re-establish and protect the ideals we believe in. ... It may require the use of military force. But no necessary cost is too high...