Evening star., 1939-09-16

The text of Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh's radio address last night
follows:
In times of great emergency men
of the same belief must gather to-
gether for mutual council and ac-
ton. If they fail to do this all
that they stand for will be lost. I
speak tonight to those people in
the United States of America who
feel that the destiny of this coun-
try does not call for our involve
ment in European wars.
We must band together to pre-
vent the loss of more American
lives in these internal struggles of
Europe. We must keep foreign
propaganda from pushing Cur coun-
try blindly into another war. Mod
ern war with all its consequences is
too tragic and too devastating to
be approached from anything but
purely American standpoint. We
should never enter war unless 1t
is absolutely essential to the future
welfare of our Nation.
This country was coloniZed by
men and women from Europe. The
hatreds, the prosecutions, the in
trigues they left behind gave them
courage to cross the Atlantic Ocean
to new land They preferred the
wilderness and the Indians to the
problems of Europe. They weighed
the cost of freedom from those prob
lens, and they paid the price. In
this country they eventually found
a means of living peacefully to-
gether-the same nationalities that
are fighting abroad today. The
quarrels of Europe faded out from
American life as generations passed.
Instead of wars between the Eng
lish, French and Germans, it be-
came struggle of the New World
for freedom from the old-a strug-
gle for the right of America to find
her own destiny. The colonization
of this country grew from Eu-
ropean troubles, and our freedom
sprang from European war, for we
won independence from England
while she was fighting France.
Washington Saw Danger.
No one foresaw the danger ahead
of us more clearly than George
Washington. He solemnly warned
the people of America against be-
coming entangled in European al
liances. For over 100 years his ad-
vice was followed. We established
the Monroe Doctrine for America.
We let other nations fight among
themselves. Then, in 1917, we en-
tered a European war. This time
we were on England's side, and so
were France and Russia. Friends
and enemies reverse as decades
pass-as political doctrines rise and
fall.
The great war ended before our
full force had reached the field.
We escaped with the loss of rela-
lively few soldiers. We measured
our dead in thousands. Europe
measured hers in millions. Europe
has not yet recovered from the
effects of this war, and she has
already entered another. A gen.
Grafton has passed since the armis-
tice of 1918, but even in America
we are still paying for our part in
that victory-and We will continue
to pay for another generation. Eu-
ropean countries were both un-
able and unwilling to pay their
debts to us.
Now that war has broken out
again we in America have de-
cision to make on which the destiny
of our Nation depends. We must
decide whether or not we intend
to become forever involved in this
age-old struggle between the ma
tions of Europe. Let us not delude
ourselves. If we enter the quarrels
of Europe during war we must stay
in them in time of peace as we'll.
1t is madness to send our soldiers
to be killed, as we did in the last