- Headline
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Iowa Labor Day Speakers Warn of Dangers From Within Country
- Publication Date
- Tuesday, September 2, 1941
- Historical Event
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Charles Lindbergh Makes ‘Un-American’ Speech
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- 8
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- Speakers Labor day celebrations in Iowa praised the American way of life, urged labor to support it, and warned against dangers from within our country.
At Winterset, George Cosson, Des Moines attorney and former Iowa attorney general, called Charles A. Lindbergh "public enemy No. 1 of the United States" and "the most valuable aid to Hitler of any man in America."
Cosson, chairman of the Iowa committee for defense of English homes, is a member of a group seeking to obtain a prominent personage to reply to Lindbergh's speech iin Des Moines Sept. 11.
Cosson spoke at the Madison county old settlers picnic.
At Cedar Falls, Lieut. Gov. B. B. Hickenlooper declared that America has "ample strength to defeat all foreign invaders by united efforts" but "the greatest dangers we face at the moment are dangers from within our country. Our efforts must be directed toward defeat of those elements which would destroy our freedom."
Hickenlooper said he favored constant effort to raise the standards of the working man in lowa.
Robert Shaw, Sigourney, former commander of the Iowa American Legion, said at Clinton that the defeat of Germany "will insure our safety and continuance of the American way of life."
He also criticized Lindbergh because, "without a lesson in tactics or strategy, logistics, supply, staff or command, he invades the field of specialists, poses as an expert and says the ocean is our protection and neither Germany nor Amcrica may cross it. Germans said that in 1918, too, yet in 14 months America had 2,000,000 lighting men on the other side."
A. A. Couch, president of the Iowa Federation of Labor, told an Ottumwa audience to "be not misguided by the isolationists" and to advance every cent possible to their government through purchase of defense bonds. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Joyce R.
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- Charles Lindbergh's - September 11, 1941 Speech in Des Moines, Iowa (partial audio; Spirit of St. Louis 2 Project)
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