- Headline
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Sounds Like Berlin Talk
- Publication Date
- Monday, September 15, 1941
- Historical Event
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Charles Lindbergh Makes ‘Un-American’ Speech
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- Newspaper
- Location
- Page Section and Number
- 4
- Author/Byline
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- Article Text
- It is evident that Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is dropping steadily lower in the estimation of the great majority of the American people, because of some of the assertions which he has recently been making in his various speeches In opposition to the Roosevelt foreign policy.
For the colonel now appears to have come down chiefly to mere repetition of what most citizens recognize as being the claims and "arguments" put forth by the propaganda artists of the Hitler regime in Germany. The striking similarity between what Lindbergh has recently been saying and what Berlin has been broadcasting to the world has been pointed out.
That similarity was particularly marked in the colonel's speech at Des Moines where he echoed the German claims that it is "the British, the Jews and the Roosevelt administration" that are conspiring to drive this country into war.
Here the colonel has in effect given an impulse to anti-Semitism in the United States, following in the footsteps of the Nazis of Germany who have made hatred of the Jews one of the cornerstones of their national policy. American citizens will have less and less confidence in and respect for Col. Lindbergh if he can do no more than repeat from American platforms the statements and arguments of the Nazi propagandists. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Randall S.
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Learn More about this Historical Event: Charles Lindbergh Makes ‘Un-American’ Speech
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- Transcript of Lindbergh’s September 11, 1941, speech in Des Moines, Iowa (PBS, American Experience)
- Fallen Hero: Charles Lindbergh in the 1940s (PBS, American Experience)
- Charles Lindbergh's - September 11, 1941 Speech in Des Moines, Iowa (partial audio; Spirit of St. Louis 2 Project)
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