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...made a mistake in taking Lindbergh's commission away: you thereby built him up. You have been skipping Wheeler, slugging Lindbergh. This is wrong. Lindbergh is the one to be afraid of, simply because he is not a politician...
...news that Jews heartily dislike Hitler and would gladly see him frazzled. They would be less than human if they did not. Hero Lindbergh, piously declaring that "no person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany," offered U.S. Jews advice: they should suppress their natural opinion. He added: "The Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it [war] ... for they will be among the first to feel its consequences." The plain implication was that the Jews will be blamed for war if it comes and will be persecuted...
Next to blaming the Jews for a war (especially if lost), the most effective anti-Jew talk is to accuse Jews of having more than their share of wealth and influence. Hero Lindbergh did not accuse the Jews of financial and industrial dominance. That charge, as he may have learned from his late father-in-law, Morgan Partner Dwight Morrow, is too easily disproved. But Lindbergh did accuse the Jews of undue success in other fields: "Their greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our Government...
...faiths rose in protest against Lindbergh's attack. White House Secretary Stephen T. Early made his own semiofficial answer: "You have seen the outpourings of Berlin in the last few days. You saw Lindbergh's statement last night. I think there is a striking similarity...
Republican Isolationist Thomas E. Dewey called Lindbergh's speech "an inexcusable abuse of the right of freedom of speech." New York's Alfred E. Smith said it "strikes at the very basis of our national unity." Hearst's isolationist New York Journal-American gave much of its front page and two inside pages to statements by Catholic and Protestant leaders unanimously denouncing or deploring Lindbergh's views. "Un-American" was the word universally used. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "On Thursday night at Des Moines Mr. Charles A. Lindbergh departed from the American way. . . . Those...