Show LETTER TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE PEOPLES I i I read with care Lindbergh's Letter to the American American American Amer Amer- ican People in Colliers Collier's of last week The basis of criticism the best informed say r is 1st get the viewpoint view view- viewpoint viewpoint view view- point of the person one is and 2 Then if 1 still opposed plan the criticism r Now I take it that Lindbergh's is is in in t firsthand knowledge of the wonderful marvelous vast EFFICIENT war machine the Germans have built up and how unprepared how deficient how vastly inferior is all our preparation preparation of France wine women and internal John Bulls Bull's lethargy and our own apathy in full foreknowledge foreknowledge foreknowledge fore fore- knowledge of Hitler's plans He saw Hitler's war 1 machine he saws his planes he saw his fine effic- effic r he correctly appraised the striking force of it all If he means to say we are all unprepared haven't haven't havet have have- nt t heeded the sounding voices of Cassandras then we can all agree with him m mightily For by now a aman aman aman man is a fool who vrho says that Hitler isn't prepared or that he hasn't the best war machine ever assembled assembled assembled assem- assem bled and directed by the most keen to kill crews ever ever ever ev- ev er trained in in the high art of demolition conquest as as- sault That far I can agree with Lindburgh fully Printed words are subject to more than one interpretation If his criticism is to say we slept s I that France slept that England slept then we can it fully take it for now we know they did Churchill saw the of his nation tried his best to wake his people e France preferred the littleness of politics politics- and the zest of wine women and song Crickets But the German ant was piling up stores |