The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-12

The two men who originally got the flying colonel on the air are Fulton Lewis, enterprising radio newscaster, and William R. Castle, Jr., under-secretary of state dur ing the Hoover administration. Castle now denies emphatically that he is having anything to do with recent broadcasts, while Lewis intimates that the farther he keeps away from Lindbergh's microphone the better.
 The man who now seems to be close to the flying colonel is Col onel Robert Mccormick, publish CT of the Chicago Tribune, who is violently anti-British and pro- appeasement. Whether or not Me- Cormick inspired Lindbergh's la test speech is not known, but Lindbergh was McCormick's house guest while in Chicago, and also it is interesting to note that the broadcast originated over WGN Worlds Greatest Newspaper), which is McCormick's radio sta- tion.
 MYSTERIOUS COLONEL
 SMITH
 Another man who has been close to Lindbergh is Colonel Truman Smith, of U. s. Army Intelligence, and the Army's chief specialist on Germany.
 Colonel Smith was stationed
 at Fort Benning berofe the ad-
 vent of Hitler, when some Ger
 man officers came there for
 training. He became great
 friend of the officers, and as
 military attache in Berlin sev-
 eral years later, renewed that
 friendship. In fact he was giv-
 en amazingly accurate informa-
 ton regarding the German
 army.
 For instance, when Germany moved into Poland last year, Colonel Smith was able to tell the War Department the points which the German Army would take, and almost the exact hour it would take them. At first, the War De- partment would not believe his information, eventually had to admit its soundness.
 Colonel Smith got to know Lindbergh in 1888 when the lat ter spent much of his time in Berlin, so when Lindbergh now . comes to Washington, sometimes for broadcasting, he frequently stays at Smiths house. The Col onel was reported to have had 8 hand in writing some of the broadcasts. This he later denied.
 Opinion in the War Depart
 ment is unanimous that Colonel
 Smith is an extremely able off,
 cer but it is mixed as to whether
 his admiration of Germany is
 purely from the military view
 point or also includes political
 viewpoint.
 At any rate, reports of Smiths collaboration with Lindbergh, brought to Roosevelt by Justice Felix Frankfurter, caused the President to demand his court martial. General Marshall, ' how ever, persuaded him that this would cause bad public reaction, and instead sent Colonel Smith south to the maneuvers. However, he is now back in Washington; was here when Lindbergh gave his last broadcast.
 OPPOSITE LINDBERGHS
 Mrs. Dwight Morrow. widowed mother-in-law of Colonel Lind bergh. isn't the only member of his family who disagrees with him on his anti-British. pro-appease- ment views. The flyers wife. au- thor of the moving Worth to the Orient" and "Listen, the Wind", also sees differently from him.
 The mother of two small boys
 and fearful of the limelight, Mrs. Lindbergh has shrunk from e public expression of her strong anti-Nasl beliefs. But personal ly she feels just as f0rcefully about them as her gangling husband does about his opposite convictions. Since he has taken
 to the public arena as the lead- ing appeascmcnt champion, Mrs. Elndbergh has become even more secluded than betoEe.