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INVASION OF PRIVACY.
The occasion of the marriage of Colonel Lindbergh and Ambassador Morrow's daughter has served to illustrate both the pertinacity of the American Press and the growing reaction against its invasion of private life. During two weeks preceding the wedding an army of photographers and reporters surrounded the Morrow home in New Jersey and no effort was spared to gather every possible particle of gossip. Both Miss Morrow and Colonel Lindbergh repeatedly insisted on their desire for privacy, but the efforts of a section of the Press to invade it were unrelenting. It is noteworthy, however,that a number of our papers, as well as a large part of the public, have shown their sympathy with Colonel Lindbergh by expressing their condemnation of the per- sistence with which his privacy is assailed. Colonel Lindbergh and Miss Morrow succeeded decisively in their efforts to keep the time of the ceremony secret. The wedding was over, and they had departed, before the news was "out," or guessed. Such a victory over the persistence of clever newspaper reporters is without precedent here. It is an interesting commentary upon American life that out of a town precisely similar to that which Mr. Sinclair Lewis portrayed in Main Street should have emerged a personality such as that of Colonel Lindbergh, whom Americans consider
one of the finest products of their civilization. - *
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