There was some joy in these parts when a new group was formed calling itself “American Third Position.” Political debate in the USA has been too limited and circumscribed. A3P promised to open things up.
But A3P rapidly turned to disappointment when they unveiled their first logo. The logo featured Charles Lindbergh, the aviator, probably featured because of his opposition to the USA entering the Second World War. Fine. The trouble is,the younger Lindbergh did not embrace the Third Position.
His father did. Congressman Charles Lindbergh, Republican of Minnesota, was one of the most radical guys ever elected to the US Congress. Together with another Progressive Republican, Senator Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin, he was a premier opponent of the act establishing the Federal Reserve.
Eustace Mullins in his book on THE FEDERAL RESERVE CONSPIRACY relied in part on Senate speeches by LaFollette. And the one book opposing the establishment of the FED AT THAT TIME was penned by the elder Lindbergh.
What about the son? Well, he married Anne Morrow, daughter of Dwight Morrow, partner of THE JP Morgan. The son of the number one opponent of what he termed the Money Trust sells out, becomes a very wealthy man and that’s that.
Whatever the younger Lindbergh became, he certainly did share the Third Position’s fight against finance-Capital. After all, he married into it.
Then A3P compounded their folly by introducing a new logo, this one with Calvin Coolidge of all people now featured. Third Position, at base, is opposition to laissez-faire capitalism AND communism. That’s NOT Coolidge.
Coolidge as president also personally ordered the court martial of American folk hero General Billy Mitchell. Mitchell, whom Milwaukee’s airport is named after, regarded as the real father of the Air Force today.
General Mitchell ran afoul of conservative Navy brass when he said bombs from planes could sink Naval battleships. The Navy disputed this–this was in the 1920s. Despite a rigged test, Mitchell proved his point. But when the hidebound Navy brass still kept opposing air power, General Mitchell in Congressional testimony accused them of sabotaging national defense. THAT’s when Coolidge ordered the court martial.
Mitchell was convicted and forced out of the Army. By the way, General Douglas was a dissenting vote on the court martial board. MacArthur said it was the most distasteful part of his long military service.
General Billy Mitchell died before the debacle at Pearl Harbor proved him right.
Yet this same Coolidge is regarded as some kind of hero by the woefully misnamed ‘American Third Position.’
What gives?
