Word: lindberghism
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...were the six Presidents, Democrats and Republicans alike. Before World War II, F.D.R. authorized wiretaps of suspected "subversives" without ever defining just what a subversive was. He also asked the FBI to file the names of Americans who criticized his national defense policies and supported those of Colonel Charles Lindbergh, who was then preaching isolationism. With similar Executive arrogance and in the same tradition, the Nixon Administration was installing illegal wiretaps and using the Internal Revenue Service to hound its domestic "enemies" 35 years later...
...Lawrence was a creature of legend, the legend was of his own making. That distinction separates him from more helpless heroes of the early 20th century, like Charles Lindbergh. He was acutely sensitive to the uses and inflections of propaganda. "We must also arrange the minds of the enemy," Lawrence wrote in Seven Pillars of Wisdom, "so far as we could reach them; then those other minds of the nation supporting us behind the firing line, since more than half the battle passed there in the back; then the minds of the enemy nation waiting the verdict...
Life on the ground was more trying and complex-as if Herman Melville had written Tom Swift. The press made a mockery of his quest for privacy. Today, no self-respecting journalist can read the lurid coverage of the Lindbergh kidnaping case without feeling embarrassment for his craft. "Experiencing a kind of publicity hitherto known only by royal families, Presidents, or movie stars, we had none of the official protection on public figures," recalls Mrs. Lindbergh in the latest installment of her diaries and letters (The Flower and the Nettle; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich). Her recollection is the main theme...
Racial Fantasies. During the late thirties, the hero and his wife sought privacy in England and France. While Europe slid toward war, Mrs. Lindbergh enjoyed "the happiest years of my life." There was an idyllic English country cottage leased from English Critic and Diarist Harold Nicolson where she began her writing career, raised a second son and prepared for the arrival of her third. Later, the family sojourned on a remote island off the French coast...
...Lindbergh pursued his technical and scientific studies. He also kept an admiring eye on Hitler's new Germany, and was not too shy to express the opinion that white Western civilization was threatened by Asians and non-Nordic bolsheviks. Neither Lindbergh nor his wife was a fascist. Their German sympathies were based on the highest idealism and hopes for peace. Unfortunately, this idealism was so high that the Lindberghs had difficulty focusing the ugly realities of earth-bound Nazism. One has only to read the airy rationalizations in Mrs. Lindbergh's The Wave of the Future...