Evening star., 1940-08-06
Editorial I! Comment
Divided, but Tends
10 : !! Back Pershing
Col. Lindbereh Receives
:. :. Rough Treatment, but
-~P Post- Dispatch Louds Him

- - Rough treatment, but
Post Dispatch Louds Him
By the Associated Press
Editorial comment on the Pershing-
Aindbergh speeches included:
. NEW YORK SUN: The important
thing about the speeches of Gen
Pershing and Col. Lindbergh is not
The wide divergence of their points
pf view, but their close agreement
bn the necessity for rapid and COM
plete American rearmament.
Participationists and isolationists
meet here on common ground.
NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE:
This paper believes with Gen.
Pershing that Congress should act
to release these vessels CPershing
urged release of at least SO over
age American destroyers to the
BRITISH. 1t is folly to husband
for remote, uncertain or theoretic
contingencies men-of-war which if
put in the hands of the British now
could do more for the actual defense
OF the country than they are ever
likely to do under later and more
desperate circumstances.
Lindbergh's Stand Upheld.
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
tInd). Col. Lindbergh's address was
In sharp contrast to Gen. Pershing's
plea for an act of war. Some of
his opinions may draw dissent, but
how can any one deny his state
ments that the problems of Europe
cannot be solved by America, that
historic forces are at work on the
Continent which no outside infiu-
ence can halt, that American opin-
don is definitely against involve
inent? This is stark realism, per-
haps unpalatable to many of the
dnthinking, but surely safer guide
than the arguments of those who
insist the war can be won for Brit
ain and America can be made Sc
eure, by giving away SO or so or our
destroyers.
BOSTON POST Qnd.- -Dem): Of
ficers Of our navy do not agree
wholly with the British that these
destroyers are a tactical necessity
for the defense of the British Isles.
They point out that they are vul-
nerable to air attack
8 Senator Walsh quickly put
his finger on the crux of the sit
uation when he replied to Per-
shing's speech with the statement
that such a sale to England would
be an act of war.
Pershing, Same Old Hooey."
DENVER POST undD - Gen.
Pershing says that "by sending help
to the British, We can still keep the
war on the other side of the Atlantic
Ocean" He declares that 'tomor-
row may be forever too late to keep
war from the Americas" That is
the same kind of hooey which was
fed to the American people to get
them into the World War.
MILWAUKEE OURNAL-Is
Gen. Pershing being used as front
by the interventionists? 1t is
evident that some force is arrang-
ing things. We have reached
the propaganda stage
Gen. Pershing would never send
an expeditionary force but
he would launch us on course
that might make an expeditionary
force a certainty. &a
Dangerous as it is to tag any man
or any speech with one word, the
simple truth is that Lindbergh's
speech sounded like a plea for
"appeasement." Col. Lindbergh,
1t is plain, does not understand
America.
Lindbergh-Nazi Propaganda.
DALLAS NEWS independently
Following Herr Hitler's final appeal
to reason to the British people,
Charles A. Lindbergh makes his
third appeal to the American public
The two are cut from the same bolt
of shoddy ideas and shibboleths.
- and the Lindbergh harangue
could not have been more timely nor
inspired if it had been issued by the
ministry of enlightenment and prop
aganda in Berlin.
The United States, with more than
300 destroyers, or more than all the
rest of the world combined, could
easily spare so to be sold to Can
ada or England and be commanded
by British crews already available
Such a move might turn the tide
of the war in England's favor and
thus save us trouble later. But it
must be made soon to be effective.
Wishes of President.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: Two
pieces of evidence convince us that
the Pershing speech voiced the
wishes of President Roosevelt in
this matter. & y d" How much can we
spare out of Navy that's only
half big enough? y = Ife we have to
fight Hitler some day. as we may,
why in heavens name should we
accommodate him by sending out
warships within reach of his bomb
ers based on his land airfields, in
stead of compelling him to come
over and fight us within reach of
OUR bombers based on OUR land
airf1elds?
CLEVELAND NEWS (Republi-
cam: Col. Charles A. Lindbergh
now stands foursquare for the ap-
peasement of Adolf Hitler. He
thus associates his personal pres
tige with the Communists, the
American Nazis and all other ele-
ments of the, so far, poorly organ
ized fifth column in America. The
News is bound to believe that this
is the fruit of ignorance, rather
than design.