RAND BACKS F.D.R. IN LINDBERGH CASE

Maintaining that the utterances of a Reserve Army Officer should be appropriate to his rank and position at a time of national emergency, Edward K. Rand, professor of Latin, supported President Roosevelt's action in criticizing the speeches of Colonel Lindbergh in a letter to the Boston Globe.

"It is not now a time of war," the professor said, but the proper conduct for an army officer is the same now as then. Lindbergh saw the point and resigned. He may now talk as clearly and dispassionately as he pleases."

Country Has Made Decision

Now that Lindbergh is a common citizen, no one will attempt to take away his right of free speech, Rand remarked. The trouble with Lindbergh is that he does not realize that the country has already made its decision, the decision that in this national emergency the United States should give its aid to Britain.

This decision of the United States according to Rand, is most un-neutral and incurs the possible risk of war. Meanwhile, he continued, we must work toward the goal of production that our industry now promises, and with our superiority in materials defeat Hitler without sending a soldier across the seas.

"Let Lindbergh keep score of the struggle," Rand concluded, "He is good at that kind of calculation."