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Lindy Says Neither U. S. Nor Germany Could Win From Other In Ocean Attack
- Publication Date
- Saturday, August 30, 1941
- Historical Event
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Charles Lindbergh Makes ‘Un-American’ Speech
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- OKLAHOMA City, Aug. 29. (AP) —Charles Lindbergh said tonight neither America nor Germany could successfully attack the other across the Atlantic ocean unless internal collapse preceded invasion.
"It seems clear to me," the famous aviator said in an address prepared for an America First Committee rally, "that the quickest way for Germany to lose a war would be to attack America, and the quickest way for America to lose a war would be to attack Germany."
Lindbergh's speech, along with that of Senator Wheeler (D-Mont), was delivered at Sandlot Park, usually the site of semi-pro baseball games. The park was obtained by the America First Committee after the city council denied use to Lindbergh of the municipal auditorium.
Lindbergh did not refer in his prepared address to the council's action. He confined them to his topic "Air Power."
He referred to the similarities of air power and sea power and commented that "aviation has developed as much in a generation as shipping developed over a period of centuries.
Germany Changed Technique
"Germany has used aviation to change the entire technique of warfare, both on land and on the sea." he stated. "England is using aviation to strike back at a continent she is unable to invade. The American interventionists are using aviation to support their claim that the Atlantic ocean has dwindled to the size of the English channel. The administration is using aviation to justify the occupation of Iceland to prepare the way for an occupation of Africa and to add to the general hysteria of war.
"If the British navy with its bases strung out from Alexandria to Scapa Flow—if the navy, with Gibraltar and Malta to assist it, cannot remain within bombing range of the European coast, then how can any navy, or combination of navies cross the ocean, and without a single base in this hemisphere, land an expeditionary force on American shores...
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