Word: lindberghism
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Last week freedom-loving U.S. citizens -heirs of Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and a great host of heroes-had genuinely good reason to fear that Freedom might perish from their land. For last week Charles Augustus Lindbergh and Gerald Prentice Nye cast aside all but the last veil of pretense and, in the pattern established by Adolf Hitler years ago, sought to make the Jews a public national issue...
Hitler showed how attacks on the Jews can be used as a prime device for promoting discord, inciting bitterness, destroying tolerance and ultimately overthrowing the basic principles of civil liberties and personal freedom. Last week, continuing to divide the nation, Hero Lindbergh attacked the Jews as being one of the "three most important groups who have been pressing this country toward war.'' The other two groups: the British and the Roosevelt Administration...
...Lindbergh spoke at Oklahoma City, but in a baseball park outside the city limits. The burden of his remarks: if the U.S. tended to its knitting it could be safe from invasion; Germany was invincible; England was not to be trusted. ("England may turn against us as she has turned against France and Finland.") Sharing the sandlot rally with Isolationist Lindbergh was Isolationist Senator Burton K. Wheeler, who shouted: "I will not be silenced...
Plucked out of obscurity by Fight for Freedom, Inc. was another Lindbergh-Augustus, cousin of Charles Augustus. A onetime section hand on the railroad, now a Birmingham lawyer, 38-year-old Augustus set out last week on a rival speaking tour. His theme: "No man has a right to set himself up as a minority of one to sabotage his government, and that's what my cousin is doing...
...never met his famous cousin. According to his wife, he tried to when Charles Lindbergh was in their neighborhood in 1927. "But the Colonel sort of snubbed...