Hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, January 23, 1941. Subject: the Lend-Lease Bill:
[LUTHER JOHNSON, D-TX] Which side are you on?
Colonel LINDBERGH. On neither side, except our own.
Mr. JOHNSON. Do you think it would be to the best interests of the United States for Hitler to be defeated?
Colonel LINDBERGH. No. I think a negotiated peace would be to the best interests of this country, sir.
Mr. JOHNSON. What kind of a negotiated peace?
Colonel LINDBERGH. That would have to depend upon negotiations.
Mr. JOHNSON. That would depend upon Mr. Hitler at this time; his will, would it not?
Colonel LINDBERGH. Partially.
Mr. JOHNSON. Entirely, since he is in control, would it not?
Colonel LINDBERGH. No; I do not believe so, sir. Negotiation implies discussion form two standpoints.
Mr. JOHNSON. What two standpoints?
Colonel LINDBERGH. Both sides of the war, sir.
Mr. JOHNSON. One side does not have much voice in the terms of peace when they are on the bottom, do they?