WAR DANGERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1940, Page 6

WAR DANGERS

SEEN BY LINDBERGH ATTEMPTS TO DRAW IN UNITED STATES. SPEECH x AT PEACE RALLY. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) CHICAGO, August 4. Colonel Lindbergh, addressing a peace rally of 50,000 persons, asserted that foreign and domestic interests were endeavouring to draw the United States into the European war. He urged the United States “to rearm fully for defence” and also to take the leadership in efforts for peace. “Let us,” he said, “offer Europe a plan for the progress and protection of Western civilisation of which they and we each form part.” Colonel Lindbergh asserted that United States opinion was now definitely and overwhelmingly against involvement in the war and said the time had arrived for the United States to consider its relationship with postwar Europe. He advocated non-inter-ference in European internal affairs, but expressed the opinion that it was of the utmost importance that the United States should co-operate with Europe. He said war between the two hemispheres could easily last for generations and bring all civilisation tumbling down. “I have a different outlook towards Europe than most people in America,” he said. “I am told I mustn't stand too strongly against the trend of the times, and that to be effective what one says must meet with general approval. I prefer to say what I believe or not to speak at all. I don’t offer my opinion as an expert, but rather as a citizen who is alarmed at the position our country has reached in this era of experts.” “We are often told,” said Colonel Lindbergh, “that if Germany wins the war, co-operation will be impossible and that treaties will become mere scraps of paper. I reply that co-opera-tion is never impossible when there is a sufficient gain on both sides and that treaties are seldom torn apart when they don’t cover weak nations. I believe we should rearm fully for the defence of America and never make the type of treaty which would lay us open to invasion if it were broken, but if we refuse to consider treaties with the dominant nation in Europe, regardless- of who that may be. wc remove all possibility of peace.”