REPLY TO LINDBERGH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 August 1940, Page 5

REPLY TO LINDBERGH

BY AMERICAN MINISTERS & PRESS NAZI SUPPORT SUSPECTED FOR “PEACE.RALLY.” WHAT AXIS VICTORY WOULD MEAN TO AMERICA. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) CHICAGO, August 4. Colonel Lindbergh attended a veterans’ anti-war rally at Chicago and spoke over the air from a mass meeting organised by the "Citizens Keep-America-Out-of-War Committee.” A radio counterblast in favour of conscription was launched by the Secretary to the Navy, Colonel Frank ■ Knox, who says that conscription is essential to the defence of the Western Hemisphere. “If Britain’s sea power is broken or seized,” he said, "the Atlantic will cease to be a barrier and become an express highway for hostile forces.” Colonel Knox asserted that, a victory for the Axis Powers would inevitably result in Hitler making a bid to obtain wealth and raw materials from the Americas. Mr R. P. Patterson, Assistant Secretary of War, also spoke over the air, and said: “America needs an army of 1,300,000. We are committed to defend the hemisphere from Point Barrow to Tierra del Fuego, and the only way is by compulsory military training.” Colonel Adler, who is civilian aide to the Secretary of War, in a broadcast address, said: “If the British Fleet is scattered or seized what is to stop Hitler bringing armies, tanks and guns to the Western Hemisphere? Even with Europe in his grip he .will need raw materials from the Americas. He will try to obtain them by economic political penetration, but if he fails he will try force.” “DEFEATIST & DISLOYAL.” The “Chicago Daily News” bitterly attacked the Lindbergh rally as defeatist and disloyal. “The headliner (meaning Lindbergh) has only a minor part in the real show which is surreptitiously encouraged by the counterfeit ‘Ger-man-American National Alliance’ and similar organisations,” it stated. “We may be sure that Goebbels is interested.” The newspaper declared that pro-Nazi organisations had been urged to attend the meeting.

A message from Rome states that “11 Messagero” asserts that Colonel Lindbergh is forming a new party to be known as “The Parly of True Americans.” It claims that isolationism is becoming stronger. hence the chances of the United States intervening in the war are weaker. FIFTH COLUMN NAZI EFFORTS IN UNITED STATES. | DENOUNCED BY MINISTER. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 9 a.m.) WASHINGTON, August 5. The Attorney-General, Mr Jackson, stated that Axis influences are trying “to soften this country, as France was softened, by promises of business orders and profits. Efforts arc being made to create a Fifth Column among men of influence and respectability in the United States.”