Word: lindberghism
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...Hooray for Lindbergh [Sept. 14]! Sure we hated Hitler. Why didn't we hate Stalin also? He was equally mean, murderous and monstrous...
During a 1944 strafing mission in the Pacific, the tormented and by then tainted American hero Charles A. Lindbergh sighted a lone figure on the beach below. "At 1,000 yards, my .50-calibers are deadly . . . I cannot miss . . . My finger tightens on the trigger. A touch, and he will crumple on the coral sand." But there is something about the potential victim's bearing, stride and dignity "that has formed a bond between us . . . I realize that the life of this unknown stranger-probably an enemy-is worth a thousand times more to me than his death...
...WARTIME JOURNALS OF CHARLES A. LINDBERGH. 1,038 pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
...Roosevelt hated most was Charles A. Lindbergh, who, during the 1941 lend-lease debate, testified: "I do not believe we are strong enough to impose our way of life on Europe and on Asia." Lindbergh's prediction has turned out to be uncomfortably close to the truth...
...Lindbergh does not disclose what he thinks the future of Western culture might have been if the U.S. had not entered the war to destroy Nazi Germany, though it seems safe to assume that Germany would eventually have developed nuclear weapons and completed its annihilation of the Jewish people and other "inferior" races. If Lindbergh's historical judgments were not so baffling, they might be very ugly...