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Lindbergh Speech

The speech given by Charles Lindbergh in Des Moines, Iowa in 1941 has as its subject the war in Europe, a war that America had not yet entered. Indeed, isolationist forces had prevented the U.S. from doing so for some time, and ***** w***** an isolationist but *****as also apparently flirting with aspects of the Nazi cause. This speech harmed his reputation.

The target for the speech was ***** public at large in an effort to suggest why ***** should remain out ***** the war *****d to justify certain ideas he ***** garnered from his trips to Germany. He recognizes that agitation ***** increasing for the U.S. to do ********** ab***** the situation in Europe as the British were fight*****g off German attacks and ***** *****y was invading country after country. The speaker in this case was a highly respected American, a hero since his solo flight *****cross the Atlantic. He had also garnered a great deal of sympathy because ***** the kidnapping ***** death of his child in the early 1930s, a ***** that was widely covered in ***** news of the day and that had included an intensely ***** trial ***** the perpetra*****r, Bruno Hauptmann. Lindbergh would certainly be heeded when he spoke, though his *****roic status would ***** make his message any more palatable if it offended a majority of the people who heard it or read about it. He attempts to frame his speech as ***** he were protecting American interests and indeed as if he ***** speaking for the ***** of Americans. He says first ***** two groups have been pushing for America to enter ***** war, foreign interests (likely meaning the European nations under attack ***** asking for assistance) and "a small minority ***** our own people," which may or may not ***** been true. By stating it this way, *****, ***** implies that he is in the major*****y that does ***** want war. He also tries to differentiate between h***** group as thoughtful ***** supported ***** facts, while those advocating ***** war are only trying to confuse ***** issue and "hide *****." He identifies the three groups pushing for war as ***** *****, the Jews, and the Roosevelt administration.

He also sees any ef*****t to ***** the war as really an attempt to assure the domination of ***** world by the British empire. He also cites ***** Communists as w*****ting war, and he then finds ***** ***** *****ns suggesting ***** and not in these categories ***** misinformed ***** frightened.

Lindbergh does say that no one can support German persecution ***** the Jews, and he says "the Jewish groups in this country ***** be opposing it in every possible *****." Essentially, though, he says ***** this is not our fight ***** should be left ***** the British and ***** Jews ***** the truly interested parties.

***** further sees ***** for the war on the part of the Roosevelt ***** as no ***** than a political ploy to retain office. He also seems