20 OCTOBER 1939, page 15

People And Things

By HAROLD NICOLSON • C OLONEL CHARLES LINDBERGH has again been broadcasting to the American people. He urged them as he had every right to do) not to repeal the Neutrality Acts......

Bergh. His Father Was A - Gentle, Conscientious, Almost...

He represented Minnesota in Congress, and belonged to a small group of insurgents who fought the governing classes and Wall Street with might and main. As a child in Washington......

We Cannot Blame Him. The Life Which He And His

were forced to lead became abnormal. He is not possessed of any sense of humour and was unable to add that lovely lubricant to the harsh grating of his machine. He could not buy......

The Strain Was Terrific. How Was This Young Man To

main- tain his own simplicity, his own few clear-cut convictions, against the adulation of a whole continent? It was almost with ferocity that he struggled to remain himself.......

He Would Return To The Little Kentish Village Where He

lived. Slowly the smoke of burning weeds would rise against the autumn woods, and lazily the apples would drop in the orchard. His mind had been sharpened by fame and tragedy......

* * It Is Not True To Say That Colonel

Lindbergh was ungrateful to the British Press and people for the reserve with which they treated him when he was living over hem. He came to me one day in London and asked......

Let Us Not Allow This Incident To Blind Us To

the great qualities of Charles Lindbergh; he is, and always will be, not merely a school-boy hero, but also a school boy.......

* * He Returned To The United States In A

blaze of glory. The American public had been deeply disappointed that the war had produced no romantic figure, and they seized upon their "lone eagle" as the embodiment of all......