AHTER 1941 0423 Charles Lindbergh - Address on

We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction. The Roosevelt administration is the third powerful group which has been carrying this country toward war. Its members have used the war emergency.

Its members have used the war emergency to obtain a third presidential term for the first time in American history. They have used the war to add unlimited billions to a debt which was already the highest we have ever known.

And they have used the war to justify the restriction of congressional power and the assumption of dictatorial procedures on the part of the President and his appointees. The power of the Roosevelt administration depends upon the maintenance of a wartime emergency.

The prestige of the Roosevelt administration depends upon the success of Great Britain, to whom the President attached his political future at a time when most people thought that England and France could easily win the war.

The danger of the Roosevelt administration lies in its subterfuge. While its members have promised us peace, they have led us to war heedless of the platform upon which they were elected. When selecting these three groups as the major agitators for war, I have included only those who support as essential to the war party.

If any of these groups, the British, the Jewish, or the administration, stop agitating for war, I believe there will be little danger of our involvement. I do not believe that any two of them are powerful enough to carry this country to war without the support of the third. And to these three, as I have said, all other groups are of secondary