PEOPLE AND THINGS
By HAROLD NICOLSON •
COLONEL 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 ; but he also abused Canada for entering the war on the ground that "as an American country" she should have remained neutral. This extension of the Monroe doctrine has caused surprise in the United States and rage in Canada. Even in this country there are those who contend that the respect which all classes showed for his privacy might have tempted him to prolong that privacy until the crisis in our national existence had been surmounted. I do not agree with this criticism. I have myself enjoyed much hospitality in Germany and in Italy, but do not feel precluded thereby from expressing my views upon the foreign policy of Herr Hitler or Count Ciano. I see no need to excuse Colonel Lindbergh ; I want to explain him.
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