Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strength and Intelligence. Recently Colonel Lindbergh dined with King Edward and his close friend War Minister Alfred Duff Cooper, the British leader in arousing public opinion to the horrors of a German air attack (see p. 17). Adolf Hitler is the leader in arousing Germans to the horrors of a Russian or French air attack. For years Der Führer and German Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Göring have been staging the world's most realistic fake air raids, gouging holes in the middle of German streets in which fake air bombs are planted, exploding smoke bombs...
...Honor!" While every German could read the full Lindbergh text in his morning paper, no Briton could read the full text in his-the reason being nothing more sinister than that even the wealthiest British Press lords are habitually too parsimonious to order the full text of anything from abroad. Since most Britons assumed that Colonel Lindbergh, the Empire's guest, was thinking of the safety of his own home in Britain, gratitude for what he had said gushed. "I think Lindbergh's speech was wholesome and timely. All honor to him!" wrote London News-Pundit Henry Wickham...
With that comradeship which makes aviators of the world virtually an international elite, with the common herd of groundfolk more or less at their future mercy, German war aircraft factories opened to Colonel Lindbergh. He was permitted to inspect and fly German bombers. He learned enough German secrets to have hanged him ten times over had he been a Jew instead of the most popular of Nordics...
Since, after all, Adolf Hitler and Hermann Wilhelm Göring have the rank and dignity of statesmen, and since, after all, Charles Augustus Lindbergh is only a civilian aviator, the German Chancellor and the Prussian Premier did not go to Berlin to greet him, remained on rustic vacation in south Germany. They did announce that "in principle" they would receive the Colonel whenever he is in their vicinity, did send their personal aides to escort him, click heels and kiss Mrs. Lindbergh's hand...
...many lands editorial writers were stimulated by the Lindbergh Message to voice in various ways the thought that if Presidents and Premiers only had the intelligence required to take an airplane engine apart, put it together again, get it started and pilot the plane, they might also be able to make the League of Nations and a good many other things work...