COLONEL LINDBERGH

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 33, 9 February 1939, Page 9

COLONEL LINDBERGH

MYSTERIOUS MOVES NOTED. MANY PEOPLE WORRIED. What is the mysterious, secretiv< curiously over-publicised Colonel Line bergh up to? (asks the London Sur day Express). Many people on the Continent ar perturbed about his recent activitie. Always when trouble has bee bubbling his black and orange acre plane has flown him to the stor: centre. He has been to Germany, Russi: Czechoslovakia and France. He rc sides, of course, in Britain. Early last year he went to Gei many. There he met Hitler, Goerin and the air generals. He paid another visit early th year. He is there again now. And i between these visits he has busie himself spreading alarming stork about Germany’s air strength conpared with ours. Germany’s machines, he tells a ears that listen in this country, ar better than ours. She has more c them. Her production is five time greater than ours. And when these facts are firm! planted, in the listener’s mind th colonel will then, it is said, strong!, advocate some sort of. a pact bet wee. Britain and Germany as the only wa Britain can avoid disaster. He always insists firmly that he i anti-Nazi himself, but those who at favoured with his views says that h never hesitates to voice his glowin, admiration for Hitler and the Gcrmc.: State.

Early this year he was in Russia As an honoured guest he was giver, unusual facilities to see Russia’s Ah Force. Russia’s flying men took him fully into their confidence. Then he returned to Britain and began to spread the story that th-' Russian Air Force was useless. When the crisis was developing, too, he took himself to France and told the same story there. That story shook France, and may have had considerable influence on the vital decisions that France in common with Britain had to make. The air industry in Britain feels that it has cause for its uneasiness about the activities of Colonel Lindbergh. If he is so frank about the air forces of Germany and Russia in his conversations in Britain and France, no doubt he is equally expansive on the subject of Britain’s air force when he is in Germany. What nobody seems to know, and what many people would like to know is: What is behind all this mysterious activity? Does Lindbergh represent any one or is he merely a somewhat indis.creet nrivate nerson?