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...submarines and surface raiders, to protect U.S. lent or leased war materials bound for Britain. If Minister de Kauffmann had a questionable legal right to sign such a paper, at least the moral justification of it was sound. The President was getting tough; and everyone, even Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, liked...
...with moral commitments that it could not fulfill, or could fulfill only by an expenditure of blood and treasure out of all proportion to the gain. How could the many Governments in exile be restored to power? How could Hitler be overthrown without a U. S. expeditionary force? Colonel Lindbergh asked: What plan did the U. S. have for making itself effective in Europe? Other isolationist writers put a sharper question: How could supplying Britain with the "tools" do more than prolong the war? How could 2,000,000 British soldiers, even supplied with U. S. arms, "somehow plough their...
...Before the war," observed shy, polite Author Harold Nicolson, British Parliamentary Secretary to the Information Ministry, to his constituents, "I had a great friend called Colonel Lindbergh." (The Colonel used to live, in fact, on Nicolson's Kentish estate.) "Before the war, Lindbergh's opinion of the British people was, 'You're fine but you are getting soft.' Now, after every bad raid, I have the great pleasure of sending him a post card saying, 'Do you still think we are soft?' Lindbergh does not answer these cards but I like sending them...
...believe that democracy is "a way of owning property, a scheme of doing business," and offer the choice between the New Order of a fascist world and the "old corrupted system full of fat and death." Says Librarian MacLeish, with a glance over his shoulder at Authoress Anne Morrow Lindbergh: "The famous woman who assures us in a beautiful and cadenced prose that democracy is old in every country, and that the future like a wave will drown it down, accepts the same alternatives of terror and despair...
...This week on TIME'S 18th anniversary, succeeding (among 938 others) Uncle Joe Cannon, Queen Mary, Charles Lindbergh, Albert Einstein, Al Capone and a bird dog, Gary Cooper as John Doe does appear on TIME'S cover...