STRICT ISOLATION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1939, Page 3

STRICT ISOLATION

URGED BV COLONEL LINDBERGH DANGER SEEN IN' CONTACT WITH CANADA. ATTACK ON EUROPEAN POWERS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. WASHINGTON, October 13. Colonel Lindbergh, broadcasting to the nation, urged the maintenance of the arms embargo and virtually demanded that Britain and other European Powers should get out of the western hemisphere lest they drag the United States into war. “We desire the utmost friendship with the people of Canada,” said Colonel Lindbergh. “If ever they are attacked our navy will be defending their seas, our soldiers will fight on their battle fields, and our flyers will die in their skies, but have they the right to draw this hemisphere into the war simply because they prefer the Crown of England to American independence? “Sooner or later we must demand the freedom of this continent and the surrounding islands from the dictates of European power. American history clearly indicates this need. So long as European Powers maintain influence in our hemisphere we are likely to find ourselves involved 'in their troubles and they will lose no opportunity to involve us. “This is a war over the balance of power in Europe. Our bond with Europe is a bond of race, not political ideology. It is the European race that we must preserve, and political progress will follow. If the white race is ever seriously threatened it may then be time to take sides with the British, French and Germans, but not with one against the other for our mutual destruction.” Colonel Linbergh advocated the isolationists’ programme, but said he would permit the unrestricted sale of purely defensive armaments. SENATOR’S REJOINDER STATEMENT WILL ENCOURAGE TOTALITARIANS. PUBLIC OPINION DIVIDED. WASHINGTON, October 14. The reaction to Colonel Lindbergh’s broadcast showed that the group favouring repeal of the arms embargo mostly criticised it and opponents of the embargo repeal mostly praised it. Senator Pittman, in a very bitter attack, said: “Colonel Lindbergh’s statement encourages the ideology of the totalitarians and is subject to construction that he approves of their brutal conquests. I admire Colonel Lindbergh’s accomplishments in the §ir, but history has not disclosed that he has had the same Experience in statesmanship and military affairs.” COMMENT IN CANADA SPEECH CALLED (“PURE HITLERISM. OTTAWA, October 14. Ministers took the stand that Colonel Lindbergh’s statement was not a matter for Government consideration, since he is a private citizen. The “Toronto Daily Star,” in a leader under the title “Offensive Lindbergh Address,” says: “The speech is presumptuous and offensive in some references to Canada. Fortunately it does not represent the attitude of the vast majority of good neighbours in the south. Colonel Lindbergh would detach Canada from its British connection and refuse it the right to prefer the Crown of England to American independence. It is pure Hitlerism—the doctrine that a stronger country should be at liberty to override the wishes of a weaker. It is not representative United States opinion. The United States has no more right to say whether Canada should go to war than Canada had to say whether the United States should go to war many years ago with Spain.