Charles Lindbergh:
“We are assembled here tonight because we believe
in an independent destiny for America. Such a destiny does not mean that we
will build a wall around our country and isolate ourselves from contact with
the rest of the world. But it does mean that the future of America will not be
tied to these eternal wars in Europe. It means that American boys will not be
sent across the ocean to die so that England or Germany or France or Spain may
dominate the other nations.
An independent American destiny means, on the one hand, that our soldiers
will not have to fight everybody in the world who prefers some other system of
life to ours. On the other hand, it means that we will fight anybody and
everybody who attempts to interfere with our hemisphere.”
Source: Courtesy of the Michigan State
University, G. Robert Vincent Voice Library.
James F. Byrnes:
“Perhaps the greatest clause in our Bill of Rights
is that guaranteeing free speech. In the exercise of that freedom, which
totalitarian government is fast wiping out in Europe today, Mr. Charles A.
Lindbergh went on the air last Sunday night to urge the American people to
continue to bury their heads in the sands and give no thought toward the
shocking conflict now raging across the waters which threatens the very fabric
of Christian and democratic civilization.
Mr. Lindbergh’s speech was announced as a discussion of our air defense.
Like many other Americans, I listened in keen anticipation of hearing a
technical and practical discussion of our aviation problem by the man who
thrilled all of us by his spectacular flight across the ocean. But instead of
giving us advice on a subject about which he should be qualified to speak, Mr.
Lindbergh gave another discourse on American foreign policy, about which he is
no more qualified to speak than Wrong-Way Corrigan or any other aviator who may
fly the Atlantic Ocean.
A few years ago, Mr. Lindbergh went to Great Britain to live. It seemed
natural to us that his interest in aviation should cause him to inspect the air
forces of other countries in Europe: France, Germany, and Russia. We thought
nothing of it—at first. Later, we were somewhat surprised by the news that he
had accepted a decoration from Hitler. We were further surprised by the reports
at the time of the Munich settlement that he was volunteering his advice in
important circles in England and France thought to be favorable to a policy of
appeasing Germany by offering no resistance to her aggression upon small
countries to the east.”
Source: Courtesy of the Michigan State
University, G. Robert Vincent Voice Library.
2. T-chart activity
· 1920s
· Treaty of
Versailles
· French
Security treaty
· 1921
Emergency Quota Act
· 1924
Immigration Act
· Washington
Disarmament Conference
· Five Power
Treaty
· Dawes Plan
and Young Plan
· Clark
Memorandom
· Kellog-Briand
Pact
· London
Economic Conference
· Locarno Pact
· 1930s
o
FDR Good Neighbor Policy
o
Buenos Aires Convention
o
Hoover-Stimpson Doctrine
o
Nye Committee
o
FDR Recognizes the Soviet Union
o
Neutrality Acts of
’35, ‘36, and ‘37
o
Panay Incident
o
FDR “Quarantine” Speech
o
Neutrality Act of ’39 - Cash and Carry
o
FDR “Arsenal of
Democracy Speech
o
Committee to Defend America
o
American First Committee
o
FDR “Four Freedoms Speech
o
Lend-Lease
o
Atlantic Charter
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