The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-05-15
SPIRITUAL STRENGTH

The British Air Ministry announced
Wednesday that the Raj now fias,TmSrel
planes than the Germans have eternfEad.
at any one time, and yet as every Key,West-
er who listened over the radio at the tiaaas
may recall, Lindbergh, when he was the
Little Boy Blue of that group of ISOLATION
lists, while they were crying for a. hands
OFF, policy for this country to pursue, de-
! clared that Germany had SO many planes
| it was foolhardy to think the Allies had any
chance of winning the war. - p,
When his critics pointed out that Eng
land too could build vast numbers of planes
that would put her on par with Germany,
he replied that, granting that England had
the planes, she would be unable to provide
sufficient number of airfieldsSto accommo-
date them. Territorially, that country was
too small, according to Lindbergh, to have
great air fleet within its confines.
Where does England keep her thou
sands of planes? That question not only
| stumps Lindbergh but also nine out of 10 of
us. But the British are not only keeping the
the secret of where that somewhere" is To-
Gated, and the British are good in keeping
| secrets. 2a9gK1I1
Lindbergh's outstanding, mistake was
| his apparent inability to gauge properly the
difference between democratic and totafit
| tartan states. That difference is spiritual in
& measure. Free peoples. put their hearts in.
their work-something that is lacking
among peoples who are hemmed; in. by
/ = s.
hundred and one inhibitions-, and the re-
suit is they turn out not only greater vol
ume of goods but better goods also.
Let's consider the Germans, who are
people of high intelligence. Though they
may cry out "Ya!" to every edict that comes
from Nazi headquarters, yet their way of
life, throughout their long history, has nev-
er been the type of life that Hitler and his
warlords would have them lead. They love
freedom and all the arts that flourish un
der free government, and they would be.
unhappy, even though Hitler won, wefe
they compelled to live under the menacing
shadow of the Gestaposs hand. They want TO
live as they elect to live, not the way, re-
gardless of what it, may be-, they are. cQpls5
PEELED to live underia cruel iron hand.
The Germans are working and work
ing hard in their war and industrial plants.
but the moving force. in their case is alto
gether different from that which impells
Americans and Englishmen People whose
hearts are in their work produced a more.
finished product than those people who
work because they are forced to work or
who work because they believe that their
survival depends on their working They
are like shipwreck sailors who tenaciously
cling to a raft, hoping even when hope Is
futile.
Spiritual strength a military Jap
spokesman in Tokyo declared, is the quality
that actuates the Japs, who really depend
on brute force and fanaticism for their
strength. 1t is sacrilege to apply the word
spiritual" to anything they have done in
this war or any other war in which they
have participated. The pagan has no spirit;
his moving force is blind adherence, to the
order of life set up by his ancestors, which
is in keeping with the instinct that governs
the actions of beasts. = ga
Germans know what spiritual strength
u.s. but they have been led away from it by
mailman and his horde of bloodthirsty
minions.
The spiritual strength in this war is
centered in the Americans and the English
men, and it is that strength that will carry
them on to victory