Interestingly, Lindbergh makes no mention of the Communists, although the war had shifted to the USSR.
Bkmk
What a piece of s&17 he was.
Fantastic pilot. No good as a human being. Henry Ford with wings.
Was he completely ignorant of what was really going on?
Misleading headline
He denounces FDR.
A few years ago some documentary presented the story that Charles Lindbergh killed his own child and faked the kidnapping.
Only one mention of Communists. Paragraph 14 last line.
... add to these the Communistic groups who were opposed to intervention until a few weeks ago, and I believe I have named the major war agitators in this country.The speech was probably written weeks earlier when the Communists were allied with Nazi Germany. He would have had to add an entire new section to cover them.
"It is not difficult to understand why Jewish people desire the overthrow of Nazi Germany. The persecution they suffered in Germany would be sufficient to make bitter enemies of any race.
No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany."
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So Lindbergh's comments were more reasonable than the headline suggests. His greatest sin in this article was that he believed that an isolationist policy was the way to go.
But who can be sure? Maybe he really wanted Germany to win, but was afraid of saying so directly.
He referred to them as “The Jewish problem.”
Didn’t he accept some sort of medal from Hitler?
Yet Lindbergh apparently had an opportunity to address the people of Iowa in 1941.
Such rhetoric would likely not go over too well in public these days, since we have PC police in colleges, broadcast studios and on the internet to keep things within the proper bounds of discussion.
Thanks for posting this as a reminder of how far we've come as a nation.
“Interestingly, Lindbergh makes no mention of the Communists, although the war had shifted to the USSR.”
Doesn’t he?:
“Add to these the Communistic groups who were opposed to intervention until a few weeks ago, and I believe I have named the major war agitators in this country.”
Some 25% of the membership of the International Battalions that fought in the Spanish Civil War were Jewish; most all were either diehard Communists or Socialists.
Comment: Once we started supplying the Brits, our fate was sealed - we were in the war, like it or not. FReepers with limited knowledge of those times would do well to spend time on YouTube both with Victor Davis Hanson, and reviewing the excellent Spanish Civil War documentaries.
Lindbergh makes no mention of the Communists
For all of Lindbergh’s faults, you have to give him credit—he flew combat missions in the Pacific as a civilian—FDR refused to let him serve in the Army Air Force.
Well Lindbergh’s actions and comments sidelined him from the war for a long time and finally he was approved to go to the South Pacific to train Army pilots in fuel conservation...He was unofficially credited with downing two zeros.
Lindbergh receives the Service Cross of the German Eagle from Goering October 1938 http://lindbergh106.weebly.com/a-nazi-sympathizer.html
Apparently, you missed what he plainly said here:
"Behind these groups, but of lesser importance, are a number of capitalists, Anglophiles, and intellectuals who believe that the future of mankind depends upon the domination of the British empire. Add to these the Communistic groups who were opposed to intervention until a few weeks ago, and I believe I have named the major war agitators in this country."
FReegards!
