Publisher; Airman Said "Fifth Column" Spokesman.
New York, Aug. 7.
Further criticism of s speech advising United States ce-operation with Germany was poured on Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, aviation ace, today as the entire front page of tne new tabloid "P.M." was devoted to outbursts against the first man who: flew over the Atlantic alone.
A front page editorial, signed by Mr. Ralph Ingersoll, the publisher, was entitled "Denouncing Charles A. Lindbergh."
The editorial referred to Colonel Lindbergh's speech made Sunday at a peace rally in which he advised ce-operation with Germany.
"I say very simply that Colonel Lindbergh in his speech at Chicago Sunday identified himself as spokes: man No. 1 for the Fifth Column. said Mr. Ingersoll.
"These are Fifth Column statements, naked and unashamed....things Fifth Columnists—friends of their country's enemies have been saying for years—in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Norway and France.'
The editorial charged that Colonel Lindbergh was obviously helped in writing hi:
Col. Lindbergh, Sunday:
"Let us offer Europe a plan for progress and protection of westera civilization of which they and we each form a part....
"We are often told that if Germany wins the war, ce-operation will be impossible and treaties will be mere scraps of paper.
"I reply that ce-operation will never be impossible when there is sufücient gain for both sides and treaties are seldom torn apart when they do not cover a weak nation...If we refuse to consider treaties with the dominant nation of Europe, regardless of who that may be, we remove all possibility of peace"—United Pr
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