A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
COLONEL LINDBERGH'S astonishing broadLast, in which he suggested that Canada was a disturber of American peace by remaining under the British flag and getting dragged (though an American Power) into British quarrels, disposes of any claim he may have to stability of judgement—one might almost say to capacity for reasoning. That is in some ways rather reassuring, for it suggests that a recent and rather notorious estimate by Colonel Lindbergh of the respective strength of the German and other European air forces, much to the advantage of the German, may have reflected a good deal more pro-Nazi bias than was realised at the time. A lone flight across the Atlantic is a great achievement—and much greater in 1927 than it would be today—but it does not go far towards conferring on the flier a title to be taken seriously when he makes pronounce- ments on international affairs. So the United States appears to have decided. And, anyhow, Colonel Lindbergh is doing much less to furnish grist to the German and Russian propaganda mills than our Mr. Bernard Shaw.
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