Interior, last night sounded a virtual call to the United States to take up arms against Germany and simulttaneously branded Mr. Charles A. Lindbergh as one of Chancellor Adolf Hitlers underlings—an American "Quisling."
Mr. Ickes, in effect, urged that the nation enter the war now while Germany is preoccupied with Soviet Russia because "such a golden opportunity can not be expected to come again to the American people...
"We must now make the supreme choice," he added. "We have been living too long on borrowed time. We must decide now whether we are willing to buy a craven's truce as Mr, Lindbergh urges....or work, sacrifice, fight and die—if need be—for liberty in the inspiration of Washington, Lincoln and Churchill"
"Nazi Wolves"
Mr. Ickes labelled Mr. Lindbergh and his followers as "Nazi wolves in pacifists' clothing."
America, he declared. must offer "to share the blood and tears tnat the heroic English have been yielding at Mr. Churchill's call.
"It it ts not to be America next, we must leave nothing undone w help England defeat the brutal hordes of Herr Hitler and destroy them. Herr Hitler has made out his list of the doomed....the situation is sri serious that if America does not quickly go all-out for Britain, America may find herself all in without Britain," he added.
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