LINDBERGH’S AIMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 November 1941, Page 6

LINDBERGH’S AIMS

SPECULATION IN UNITED STATES. MAY RUN FOR PRESIDENT. NEW YORK,- October 22. The possibility of Lindbergh seeking nomination for the Presidency of the United States at the 1944 elections is being widely discussed. Political observers say both Lindbergn and Senator Burton K. Wheeler are well aware that a wave of isolation after the war might carry a non-interventionist candidate to the White House. Wheeler’s ambitions are open gossip in the capital, but it is not yet clear whether the degeneration of Lindbergh from a seemingly sincere and patriotic non-interventionist to something resembling a pro-German sympathiser has bereft him of the majority of his followers. . Lindbergh, at present America s most publicised figure, has moved from a large colonial farmhouse on Long Island to an island off the Massachusetts coast. He maintains the fiction of avoiding publicity, but periodically writes magazine articles defending isolationism and suggesting Britain will not be able to withstand the Luft-

waffe. He has cultivated reasonable proficiency as a public speaker. He has personal magnetism reminiscent of Hitler —on a small scale. His thesis is that Germany, by virtue of virility and power, is entitled to expand at the expense of weaker neighbours. He has now lost the support of Hearst and other non-interventionists, who would support the Government if war were declared. But, in return, he has become the centre of gravity for the nations of pro-Germans, antiBritons, Bundists, smalltown Fascists and those afflicted with blind hatred of Roosevelt. He is thus a potentially powerful figure. His next political move will be closely watched. It mighty be his entry into Congress representing isolationist Minnesota (a State of German farmers), as a build-up for the Presidency.