Hero & Herod (Cont'd)

Having been convulsed by the flight of Hero Charles Augustus Lindbergh " family from the Herods of U. S. lawlessness and yellow journalism, U. S. editors, who spent last fortnight proclaiming their country's inferiority to Great Britain in manners and morals (TIME. Jan. 6), maintained almost unanimous silence last week as they watched the Lindberghs run to ground like rabbits by the British Press. At Liverpool waited some 100 British newshawks and a score from the continent, ready with tugs, speedboats, airplanes and racing automobiles to circumvent any Lindbergh attempt to escape from their questions and cameras. Held back at the dock by police, they gave chase in automobiles, were balked when their prey holed up in a Liverpool hotel. Angrily they haunched down in the lobby, prepared to pounce at the first opportunity.

None came. Acting as official spokesman, a London banker friend of the Lindberghs announced that they were in England on a six-month immigration permit, had come solely for ''peace " rest.'' Charles, Anne and small Jon Lindbergh kept to their three-room suite, behind locked doors guarded by a private detective. Not even their waiter was permitted to see them: he carried a key to their sitting-room, left food there while the beleaguered family lurked in their bedrooms.

In his London Daily Mirror, Viscount Rothermere, "Hearst of England," printed an editorial entitled "Leave Them Alone." Simultaneously he covered his front page with Lindbergh news supplied by his watchful reporters.

By the fourth day, British newshawks had sullenly abandoned their siege and Lindbergh news in the British Press had dwindled to a trickle. Only U. S. correspondents were still prowling about when Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh bundled Jon out the hotel servants' entrance and into a waiting limousine, sped off with Mrs. Lindbergh's brother-in-law. Aubrey Neil Morgan, toward the home of his father near Cardiff, Wales. A few newshawks gave chase in a taxicab, soon lost the trail. Speeding to Cardiff by train, they found all entrances to the Morgan estate guarded, all servants pledged to silence.

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