Word: lindberghism
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Until the late 1930s. Lindbergh was a larger than life personality, a man who seemed to have transcended worldly concerns, and who spoke with legitimate moral authority. Precisely for this reason; Lindbergh's decline as a hero is also without parallel in American history. The cause of this change in the national attitude were Lindbergh's views on Nazi Germany, and on whether America should intervene in Europe after the outbreak of the Second World War. He believed the war in Europe was "fratricidal" in that neither side was entirely right or wrong, and he advocated that Western nations stand...
...after a visit to Germany, he wrote that he found developments there to be "encouraging...rather than depressing" and said that he saw Germany as a "stabilizing factor" in Europe. After September 1, 1939. Lindbergh became a leader in the fight to keep America out of the war a cause which rallied people from all ends of the political spectrum from the German American Bond to the Communist Party, but which never won the support or even succeeded mitigating the distrust, of a majority of the American people...
Wayne S. Cole's Charles A. Lindbergh and the Battle Against American Intervention in World War 2 is his third book on this period. In America First: The Battle Against Intervention 1940-41. Cole detailed the history of the largest isolationist organization of that time, the America First Committee. Senator Gerald P. Nye and American Foreign Relations is a study of the career of one of Congress's most ardent isolationists. In Lindbergh, Cole documents the history of the aviator's involvement with anti-interventionists politics and presents a complete picture of Lindbergh's foreign policy views. The book...
...instances when Cole wavers from purely descriptive history is in his discussion of Lindbergh and the Jews. In September, 1941 at an America First rally in Des Moines, Iowa, Lindbergh declared that the Roosevelt Administration, were seeking to push America into the War. He said that he understood that Jews were bitter about persecution in Germany, but warned, "instead of agitating for war, Jewish groups should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will be among the first to feel its consequences." He had written in his diary two years earlier, after the Crystalnight pogrom. "They (the Germans...
...Lindbergh, on the other hand, always had an ax to grind, and made sure his analysis of, say, air force developments in Europe, conformed with his position that Germany could not of the war. Upon his return to the United States from Europe in 1938. Lindbergh told everyone who would be futile, that German air strength made war over the Sudeten crisis a non-viable proposition for England, France, and Russia. He endorsed the appeasement at Munich that ceded Czech territory to Germany, and paved the way for the occupation of Czechoslovakia the following year. Cole says that there...