Word: lindberghism
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...Staaken 15 huge German bombers were lined up as if at attention. Special customs guards had gone to the military field for the sole purpose of inspecting the Lindbergh baggage, of verifying how much money was in the Lindbergh wallet. Due at 5 p. m., the Gipsy-Moth alighted at precisely 5:05. Thereupon the entire German Press began grinding out under huge headlines that "the character of Colonel Lindbergh symbolizes the heroic qualities which Adolf Hitler is seeking to impress on German youth...
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...