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...Bathurst, Gambia, on the northwest shore of Africa the Lindberghs waited two days last week for a breath of sultry air to lift their plane and start them across the South Atlantic. Behind them lay a five-month cruise from New York to Labrador, around Greenland, through Denmark and Sweden, into Russia to Moscow, around the British Isles, through France, Holland, Switzerland, Spain to Portugal. From Lisbon, where Mrs. Lindbergh declined two bottles of 200-year-old port wine, they flew to the Azores. Thence they zigzagged via the Canary Islands, where Colonel Lindbergh painted a sign on his plane...
Instead of returning to the U. S. by the northern route, as earlier expected, the Lindberghs headed for Lisbon, Portugal. Late last month, after brief jaunts about the British Isles, they made a secret flight through a night storm to Paris, where Colonel Lindbergh has not been since his 1927 flight. He showed Mrs. Lindbergh the tablet erected at Le Bourget on the spot where he landed, stunted at Villacoublay in an acrobatic plane, visited the Air Ministry's experimental laboratory. Premier Albert Sarraut, Atlantic Flyer Dieudonne Coste and Louis Bleriot entertained them at dinners. After brief trips...
...Merely because we wanted to see such an interesting country," the Lindberghs flew from Sweden to Russia, were enthusiastically welcomed by Soviet officials and newspapers in Moscow. At a Russian ballet, when a man in the audience cried "Hurrah for Lindbergh!" in Russian, the entire audience rose and cheered for several minutes...
...only one Russian newspaper mentioned Lindbergh's transatlantic flight. Regarded as "bourgeois sensationalism," it was reported three days late, given three lines of type...
...workman's clothes looking a bit like Charles Augustus Lindbergh without a shave walked out of Moscow's Kremlin one day last month, across vasty Red Square and stopped at a line of common folk waiting outside a State store. He asked the man at the end of the line, "What are you waiting to buy, Comrade...