Word: lindbergh
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...Chicago, Mayor Edward J. Kelly snorted: "If Colonel Lindbergh is correctly quoted in the newspapers, I think his action is ridiculous...
International News Service was led to believe that the Lindberghs had fled simply to escape the approaching tumult over Murderer Hauptmann's execution scheduled for this month. The New York Sun reported that Mrs. Hauptmann had planned to take her child to the Lindberghs' doorstep on Christmas Day, plead for her husband's life. Canvassing of every available Lindbergh relative and associate brought confidential information that the Lindberghs had gone away ''for a three-week Christmas vacation." "until spring," "for a year," "forever...
Quitter? Coward? Editorial sentiment was overwhelmingly but not unanimously with the fleeing Lindberghs. After a conventional expression of shame and regret, the Milwaukee Journal declared: "We say that after making due allowance for the somewhat peculiar personality of Colonel Lindbergh...
...cries of shame and outrage with which the mass of U. S. editors compared native law & justice with the British variety. A dozen U. S. Senators called for new laws against crime and aliens, and New York's Mayor LaGuardia exclaimed with magnificent irrelevance: "Rather than have a Lindbergh exile himself, we will chase these punks out of the city...
British editors first buried the Lindbergh story briefly on inside pages. As soon as they caught the drift of U. S. opinion, they promoted it to front pages, began editorially looking down their noses at the U. S. "The shock millions of Americans received when they read the news of Lindbergh's departure," pontificated the London Daily Herald, "is comparable only to what would occur in Britain should the Prince of Wales announce he was no longer secure in his own country...