Aprit 25, Col. Charles Lindbergh has broken out {into publicity again, Speaking before an America First meeting he claimed that it was obvious that Britain was losing the war, but was banking upon the United States to'save her. There is a grave danger that, in the case of Col, Lindbergh, the wish 1s father to the thought, and while no one for one moment would question his loyalty to the United States there can be little doubt that he is the best propagandist for Germany in his own country. That -was made clear when he testified before Congress on the Lend-Lease Bill when he indulged in obiter dicta covering a wide range of subjects on which hhis only claim to be an expert appears to have been that he once flew the Atlantic and assisted in making a mechanical heart, Dealing with his evidence then, Mr, Harold Laski has quite a deal to say about the Colonel and what he averse 'What is bound to puzzle an outsider Is the range. of the' subject-matter upon which Colonel Lindbergh specks with the assumed authority of an expert. That he is an aviator ff unsurpassed brilliance and courage no one heeds fo. be told. That he has thought hard upon the problems of aviation is obvious from his experience since his Transatlantic flight, That, since his achievement, he has mingled much with those to whom the Is-'Sues of International polities are the staple of conversation, one need not doubt, What is surprising to the outsider is the implication "that this experience makes Colonel Lindbergh an authority upon a range of. questions each of which depends for its {answer upon factors the knowledge of which can hardly have come his way. The part that fea-power will play" in this" war; the. part that economic strain will have: those psycho. logical impalpables of which those most experienced in the ways of government will
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