Evening star., 1945-12-18
Lindbergh Appeals
For Christian Ideals
Backed by Strength

Backed by Strength
Charles A. Lindbergh last night
called on the Nation to return to its
Christian ideals-the integrity, hui
mility and compassion that are lack
ing all over this postwar world
and.to use these ideals and qualities
as the basis for its participation in
. world organization with 'immedi-
ate and overwhelming strength ut
its disposal"
Speaking before the 42d anniver-
sary dinner OF the Aero Club of
Washington at the Hotel Statler,
Mr.. Lindbergh indorsed world Or
ganization backed by power, "only
because I believe the alternative is
worse"
It was his first public address
since he resigned his Army commits
sion IN 1941 because Of disagreement
with President Roosevelt's Inter
ventionist policies"
Atom Bomb Forces Issue. ,
I'VE must face the fact that air
craft and the atomic bomb have
brought us to q time when we will
either live in an organized world or,
In constant insecurity. To me it is
no longer a question Of whether or
not we should have world organi-
zation. but of what form it should
take" Mr.. Lindbergh declared.
The world organization, the IA
NOUS flyer said. must be backed by
power which can prevent prepara-
ton for an atomic war and which
cannot be blocked by the veto Of any
single nation. 1t should be led, he
added, "by the western peoples who
developed modern science with its
aviation and its atomic bomb"
But, Mr.. Lindbergh urged, such
an organization, to have permanent
influence, must WELD power guided
mot by the desire for revenge, not
by the intent to exploit or enslaye,
but by the qualities represented in
Christian ideals. II
Deplores Lack Of Ideals.
"One finds no trace of these quail
ities in the complacency with which
we greeted the inverted hanging of
Mussolini's body. There is little in
dication Of them in the court trials
of our conquered enemies. There is
an appalling lack of them in our
attitude toward the famine-stricken
peoples we have defeated. But with
out these qualities there can be no
security. as the Germans learned.
Without them we simply SOW the
wind with our aircraft and bombs" +"
Mr.. Lindbergh, whose speech Off
cially commemorated the first flight
of the Wright brothers at Kitty
Hawk, N. c., told his audience that
questions as to the future develop
ment of aircraft have become
"dwarfed by the basic problem of
how to keep aircraft from destroy
ing the civilization which creates
them"
TT has become more important
how to control our products than
how to produce them," he said, add
ing that If the world is able to pre-
vent the future misuse Of power
based on aircraft and atomic energy,
it will mark "a greater epoch in hui
man relations than their invention
marked in science"
Sees No Atom Defense.
Life in a world in which atomic
power was not controlled by world
organization would be like living
with rifle pointed always at your
head" Mr.. Lindbergh said. 1T would
be only matter of time before the
trigger would be pulled, for where
man has had pnWer.at bis finger tips,
sooner or later he has found causes
for its trial. From primeval club to
atomic bomb, he never invented a
weapon so terrible that he failed to
use it in war" ssls ,o,o~
Mr.. Lindbergh testihed- that no
adequate defense can be foreseen
against atomic rockets. Counter
attack might win an atomic war;"
he said, but it could not replace
our cities or bring back our dead"
He drew the conclusion that "a
successful military movement must
prevent rather than win an atomic
war"
Turning to the question of the
proper structure of the world organ
ization, Mr.. Lindbergh said it may
vary between the arbitrary power
of a Roman state and government
based on complete equality OF man" ]"
He advocated neither extreme, point
ing out that state based on equal
ity would be controlled by the
nations of largest population"
Gen. Spaatz a Guest.
In this case, Mr.. Lindbergh OBJ
served, "our country would have less
than half the influence Of India or
China. We would also have less in
fuence than Russia"
An honor guest at the dinner was
Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, who earlier had
received from President Truman
the Robert j. Collier trophy award
ed by the National Aeronautics As
sociation for the years outstanding
contribution to aviation by an
American.
Beverley Howard received the An
drew J. Haire award for airport
advancement, and DR.. Huber w.
Hurt received the Frank G. Brewer
trophy for aviation education work
with the Boy Scouts.
Awards were presented by Will
liam A. Enyard, president of the
NAA. The program was opened by
Robert B. Kinkead, president of the
Aero Club. Gill Robb Wilson, avia
ton editor of the New York Herald