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...About Mr. Lindbergh one thing has always puzzled me. . . . What has this mechanic and aviator (and a damned good one) ever done that makes him think he is a guiding light for mankind? Isn't this what the psychiatrists call a form of megalomania? It's presumptuousness at the least. Now that he has been revealed as a prime stirrer-upper of racial prejudice he ceases to be merely ridiculous-he becomes a menace to the very ideals of tolerance and justice which we are trying to strengthen and deepen. If we must have Junior in politics...
...your screwy attack on Charles Lindbergh (TIME, Sept. 22) for classing Jews with British and the Roosevelt Administration as those crowding the nation into war, and charging "the ex-hero's appeal to prejudice and bigotry," you misrepresent him and the whole movement for a Constitutional war or none. I have read every issue of TIME and have found it usually fair. But this is so unfair and foul it stinks...
...hero is right! TIME certainly gives Charles A. Lindbergh his proper title in your issue of Sept...
Into national headquarters, after the Lindbergh speech, poured a flood of mail, which America Firsters broke down into the "for" and the "against." According to their tally, 93.3% of the letters were in Lindbergh's defense, usually taking the line that a great patriot was being maligned and attacked by interests with ulterior motives. Typical: "We know that the heart of this boy is Pure Gold. We know that in speaking to the American People he gives of his best." One Midwest chapter reported that it had lost three members, gained 60. Other chapters reported similar results...
This week, as Lindbergh got ready to speak in Fort Wayne, Ind., the question in most minds was whether he would retract or repeat his Des Moines attack. Best guess was that he would let it lie. Says Lindbergh: "I never compromise...