Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-28
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER

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Colonel Lindbergh'S recent
testimony To recall that the Ger
man nation. as personified by
Adolf Hitler. has shown itself TO
be such a liar, thief and assassin
that il would be folly for the
the United States 10 attempt 10
do business with a victorious
Germany on a basis of good faith.
Lindbergh believes it will be
necessary TO get along with Ger
many should Hitler win. Other
possibilities intervene. but to
ignore all these and reduce the
problem to-tiS simplest phase,
the fact is that Lindbergh asks
his own country 10 undertake
relations with a nation whose
spiritual leader has written in
the sky the fact that his prom
iSes are lies and that any one
who trusts him is fool.
In relations between man and
man the individual whose con-
duct resembles that of Adolf
Hitler acquires a reputation as
a no-good to say nothing of a
acknowledgements In tirI1c he Is
summed by all but other Grim
inals. and he can't get credit for
small beer,
HITLER'S record of betrayal
II began long before -Czecho-
Slovakia. but. not TO 60 all the
way back, that brutal killing will
do for a starter,
He gave his word not TO in
wade or annex CZecho-Slovakia
even to the extent of saying that
he wanted none of the contempt
ible Czechs. and followed that
assurance with military con-
quest which he didn't even
.hothefto offer an excuse.
Finally. in response to note
from President Roosevelt i'm
ploring him to keep the peace.
Hitler specifically asked larger
number of nations to say frankly
whether they felt that their
safety was threatened by Ger
many. and used their answers in
the form of a rebuke to the
United States for mcddling in
European affairs and impugning
the sacred honor of the German
people.
Living right under Germany's
big guns. Poland. Norway. Den
mark. The Netherlands, Belgium
and Rumania replied that, of
course, they had no such fear
and. having no honor TO lose.
Hitler took that occasion further
TO assure all these and others
that he never would so much as
take -divot out of their Sover-
eign lands.
NOBODY. except perhaps Lind
~ bergh. needs telling what
Hitler did TO these countries
Notwithstanding these and other.
more detailed solemn pledges of
that which is called the sacred
honor of the German race.
However. il will emphasize
the perfidy of the fuehrer TO re-
call that in the undeclared war
on peaceful Norway. Hitler be-
gan operations by sending over
in civilian guise young soldiers
who. as babies had been saved
from starvation and sheltered in
the very homes of the Nor
wegian people. TO whom they
now returned as welcome foster
children.
When the hour struck. these
exemplars and guardians of the
German honor turned on the
people who had sheltered and
fed them as helpless victims of
the first World War
That is the honor with which
Lindbergh would have his own
country conduct relations in the
world of the future, the sort of
people. schooled in treachery and
taught TO regard deceit as q per-
Sonal. national and racial virtue.
whom the colonel would meet
on terms of good faith
I INDBERGH. and those who
IL believe as he does. offer no
plan by which this nation. in
that future world, could protect
itself from treachery backed by
brutaliticS which have been de-
Scribed so often and in such
detail that they are now old
and familiar horrors.
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seem that the United States
must either live entirely apart
from a victorious Germany and
her slave states and keep con-
Stantly armed to fight the great
est war machine in all history.
or wholly abandon the morals
which civilized people Try. at
least. TO live up TO and become
a criminal nation. too. in col
laboration with Hitler.
Llndbergh ignores entirely
Htlcr'S own recent declaration
that IIitleriSm is AT war with
the American concept and that
never the twain shall meet eX-
ccpt 10 fight.
p YEARS AGO TO-DAY