Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-03

sarily those OF The Detroit
Tines.)
Under the title The Lind
- bergh Doctrine of American
Defense" MIR. Lippnlann wrote a
lucid and brilliant article on
o Thursday 10 prove the fallacy Of
Colonel Lindbergh's reasoning on
air versus sea power.
/ hope that Mr.. Lippmann's ar
ticles has been carefully read sew
eral times over by all the members
Of Congress. Mr.. Lipprann took
I'D Colonel Lindbergh's actual tes-
tinony before the foreign affairs
committee Of the House and an
swered it incontrovertibly from
history and in logic.
DUT Colonel LfndbeSGh's rea'
- soning is as fallacious in the
things he does not take account
of as in the things he counts. There
is nothing in any of his speeches
20 indicate that he is conscious Of
the power and pull of economic
factors.
And this is where a Western
Hemisphere policy such as he adj
vocates-America for the Ameri-
cans-would break down even IL,
or when. the sea power of the
United States were equal to that
of the triple Axis plus Great Brit
ain.
We cannot furnish market for
South American products. The
United States does not have con-
sumers for those products.
The consumers for those mil
lions of tons of wheat. corn. meat,
copper and cotton are neither in
the 10000, COOS who are the total
number of inhabitants of the South
American continent nor in the
10000. 900 of the United States,
nor in the 11.000.o00's of Canada
all of whom have wheat. corn,
meat and copper already.
The consumers are in Europe
In the 396. OO0,000's of that over
crowded, h G hi " iHdHstfiahsed
peninsula of Asia-western Europe,
exclusive of Russia.
LIVERY year Europe purchases
II South American products 10
the tune of 2i2 billion dollars.
Every year the United States pur-
chases South American products
TO the tune of 100000 million dol
lars.
Every year Europe sells manu-
featured goods TO South America
for over a billion dollars and the
United States sells for 600 million
Now, if the Nazis win in Europe
they will. at one stroke, have be-
come South Americas sole, great
est and absolutely indispensable
European customer. as South
America is an absolutely indiS-
pensable source of certain foods
and raw materials for Europe.
And if the United States at
tempts TO interfere with or cut
down that trade we shall become
the worst enemy of South Amer
lea.
COUTH AMERICAN ports will
~ be crowded with German ships:
Nazi commercial, technical and
eventually military advisers will
be IN every South American re-
public.
To keep in with these Nazi rep
resentatives will be a necessity for
every South American government
and the end Will be a series of
Nazi states south of the Rio
Grande.
With extreme rapidity. the
Latln-American states will be as
peacefully penetrated. recognized
and reoriented by the moster OF
Europe, plus his Italian and Span
lsh satellites, as Spain itself has
been.
NOW. what are We going 10 do
~ about all this. even if we have
seapower and airpower to burn?
Are we ging 10 go down and
blast out the NaZis by force?
Then we shall become an
aggressor nation" and Germany
will become the defender Of
Latin-American independence"
The NaziS won't have 10 invade
Latin America: they viii be in
vited in TO defend Latin American
freedom. trade and prosperity
against the colossus Of the
North
And against that menace air.
dromes built by the Nazis for
purely commercial purposes" will
shortly be supplied by the Nazjs
with bon1bers and fighters.
Colonel Lindbcrgh's viewpoinf
shows a complete lack Of knowl.
edge Of history and of naval. eco
nomlc and cultural factors.
Ills personal bases. are quite
unemportants whether or not he
has sympathy with the Nazi system
OF politics is quite uninpnrtaut
His program would mean tho end
OF freedom and equally -
United States as q great nation
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