Evening star., 1938-10-10
L|NDBERGH 'L|ED,'
M|SLED ENGLAND,
RUSSIANS CHARGE
'FaIsehoods' on Air Force
Aided Czech Sacrifice,
II Flyers Say.
SEQUEL TO UNVERIFIED
REPORTS OF CRITICISM
Iackey and Flatterer of German
Fascists' Are Other Epithets
Hurled at American.
BACKGROUND


Col Charles A. Lindbergh and
Mrs. Lindbergh uisited SoUiet
Union in August and pere shoiDn
demonstrations OF Sopiet air
strength. They later fen to the
Sopiet Ukraine, Rumania and
Czechoslouakia, Dhere the Amer
ican flyer ,Uds decorated By the
government. They then few to
Paris and their home on Illiec
Island.
By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Oct. lO.-Soviet Rus
sia's leading airmen today solemnly
denounced Col Charles A. Lindbergh
in statement accusing him of spread
ing lies about Soviet air strength to
give Prime Minister Chamberlain of
Britain arguments for the surrender
of Czechoslovakie.
The Soviet statement apparently
arose from unverified reports in two
London newspapers that Lindbergh
had been critical Of the Soviet air
force.
Lindbergh has made no comment
on the reports. 1t was not known i'm
mediately whether he had ever re-
turned to England after his visit to
Moscow in August.
Figured in Commons Debate.
His visit to Russia figured in a
guarded statement during House of
Commons debate last Thursday. Ellen
Wilkinson, Laborite, said that "inf1u-
ertial people" had told Chancellor
Hitler that in no circumstances would
Britain fight for Czechoslovakia. and
added that "it is very serious thing
that when very prominent American
airman" was being lunched by these
people, they assured him it was
impossible for this country to do any,
thing because Germany's airforce
was better than the Russian, British
and French combined"
The Moscow statement was signed
by IL Soviet airmen, including Civil
Aviator Chief Vastly Molokof1. Ten
of the group had been designated
ofiicially as heroes Of the Soviet
Union" ....
Published in the Communist party
newspaper Pravda, the statement called
Lindbergh stupid liar, a lackey
and a flatterer of German Fascists."
Lindbergh Accused.
1t accused Lindbergh of telling
guests of Lady Astor in London that
Germany's air feet was powerful
enough to defeat the combined air
strength of France, England, the
Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia.
His purpose, the statement said, was
to provide Mr. Chamberlain with ar
guments for handing over parts of
Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler.
The statement characterized Col
Lindbergh as "has-been" among
aviators, who recently took advantage
of Soviet hospitality toward Americans
invitation.
Among other things, the statement
said:
Five years ago Lindbergh visited
the Soviet Union. where he was cor
daily and sincerely received by the
Soviet people. The Soviet people cor
daily opened to Lindbergh the doors
Of schools and theaters and the gates
OF airports.
And then, not long ago, Lindbergh
again visited the Soviet Union. 1t
should be noted that nobody invited
him, and that if he was permitted to
come it was because Americans had
requested it.
"Trip Basis of Calumnies.'
Awaiting himself of this permission,
Lindbergh attended aviation day
demonstration August 10 during the
American aviator's visit to Moscow
and now that he has returned to
London he has used his sojourn in
the Soviet Union as the basis of
calumnies and insolent attacks on the
Soviet Union-which was the dish
served up to guests of Lady Astor."
The statement, replying to the al
legged assertions in London by the
American aviator to the effect that
the Soviet air feet was weak and dis
organized, continued:
ON what basis does he draw such
conclusion? Only Allah knows"
Having uttered such a colossal lie,
Lindbergh was inwardly amazed at
himself and decided to try another.
His second declaration exceeded
his first. He said that during his
stay in Moscow he was offered the Job
Of chief of Soviet civil aviation.
"Lindbergh probably has not read
Gogol and doesn't know the name of
Glestakoff. (Glestakoff was a char
acter in Gogol's play, "Revizor." He
was always boasting and lying.)
"Lindbergh in the role OF chief of
aviation' Among us pilot such wild
lie could only cause laughter! Such
so-called pilots. and even former
pilots, will not be permitted to come
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