Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life (84 page)

¹⁸By 1931, twenty-seven states had passed laws permitting sterilization. By 1932, more than 12,000 sterilizations had been performed in the United States, half of them in California. By 1935, the year Carrel’s book was published, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, and Sweden condoned enforced sterilization. To those who espoused it, sterilization of the socially unfit was simply a matter of reason and good economics. Source: J. H. Landman, Ph.D., J.D., J.S.D.,
Human Sterilization: The History of the Sexual Sterilization Movement
, New York: Macmillan, 1932.

¹⁹Time
, 9/16/1935, “Carrel’s Man.”

²⁰LROD
, AML diary, 9/17/35, pp. 312–313.

²¹NYT
, 10/3/35, “Books of the Times.”

²²LROD
, AML diary, 12/3/35, p. 328.

²³Newsweek
, 12/28/35, “Lindberghs Seek Threat-Free Exile as Hauptmann Seeks Life.”

19. CROSSING OVER

¹NYT
, 1/5/36, “Lindberghs at Landaff.”

²Ibid., 12/23/35, “Lindbergh Family Sails for England to Seek Safe, Secluded Residence; Threats on Son’s Life Force Decision.”

³Ibid., 12/30/35, “Due in Liverpool Tomorrow.”

⁴LROD
, AML diary, 12/23/35, p. 333.

⁵Time
, 1/6/36, “Hero and Herod,” part I.

⁶Ibid., 1/13/36, “Hero and Herod,” part II.

⁷.
NYT
, 12/26/35, “Gangs Abroad Too, Lindbergh Is Told.”

⁸British Sessional Paper 1936–1937, Command Paper #5520, vol. 26, p. 463.

⁹NYT
, 1/3/36. “Letters to the Editor: Crime in England.”

¹⁰LROD
, AML diary, 12/29/35, p. 335.

¹¹Time
, 1/6/36, “Hero and Herod.”

¹²LROD
, AML diary, 12/31/35, p. 336; and
NYT
, 1/4/36, “Lindberghs Start Trip to Wales.”

¹³F&N
, AML letter to ELLL, 1/10/36, pp. 3–4.

¹⁴F&N
, AML letter to CCM, 1/12/36, pp. 6–7.

¹⁵Ibid., p. 7.

¹⁶F&N, AML diary, 1/21/36, p. 10.

¹⁷Deirdre Beddoe,
Women Between the Wars: 1918–1939
, London: Pandora, 1989.

¹⁸F&N
, AML diary, 1/28/36, p. 16.

¹⁹Ibid., pp. 11–12.

²⁰Reeve Lindbergh, op. cit., pp. 143–144.

²¹The idea that art puts a glaze over reality recurs throughout Anne’s work, permeating her books and poetry.

²²F&N
, AML diary, 2/3/36 through 2/15/36, pp. 17–22.

²³Ibid., 2/19/36, p. 23.

²⁴Ibid., 2/20/36, pp. 23–26.

²⁵Ibid.

²⁶Ibid., p. 25.

²⁷Jane Brown,
Sissinghurst: Portrait of a Garden
, 1990; Anne Scott-James,
Sissinghurst: The Making of a Garden
, 1974; and Tony Venison, “The Garden Before Sissinghurst,”
Country Life
, 169:924–6, 1981.

²⁸AML,
The Unicorn and Other Poems
, p. 10.

²⁹Fon W. Boardman, Jr., op. cit.

³⁰NYT
, 3/2/36.

³¹F&N
, AML diary, 3/6/36, p. 29.

³²Ibid., p. 30.

³³Robert Goralski,
World War II Almanac: 1931–1945
, New York: Bonanza Books, 1981, p. 43.

³⁴F&N
, AML diary, 3/6/36, p. 31.

³⁵F&N
, AML letter to DWM, Jr., 3/25/36, pp. 40–41.

³⁶NYT
, 4/4/36, “Hauptmann Put to Death for Killing Lindbergh Baby; Remains Silent to the End.”

³⁷Ibid.

³⁸F&N
, AML diary, 4/21/36, pp. 42–44.

³⁹Ibid., 5/16/36, pp. 53–55.

⁴⁰Ibid., 4/23–26/36, pp.
44
–4
6
.

⁴¹F&N
, AML letter to CCM, 3/23/36, pp. 36–40.

⁴²F&N
, AML diary, 4/30/36, pp. 46–47.

⁴³Ibid., 5/12/36, pp. 48–53.

⁴⁴Ibid., 6/24/36, pp. 71–72.

⁴⁵Ibid., 7/4/36, pp. 72–73.

⁴⁶Walter Ross interview with Kate and Truman Smith, 4/9/65; Interview with Katharine Smith, 5/14/85; Interview with Katharine (Kaetchum) Smith Coley, 5/25/85; Robert Hessen, ed.,
Berlin Alert: The Memoirs and Reports of Truman Smith
, Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1984.

⁴⁷Interview with Katharine Smith, 5/14/85.

⁴⁸Robert Hessen, ed., op. cit.

⁴⁹Ibid.

⁵⁰Preceding four paragraphs:
F&N
, AML diary, 7/22/36, pp. 80–84.

⁵¹William L. Shirer,
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Germany
, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959.

⁵²F&N
, AML diary, 7/22/36, pp. 80–84.

⁵³Time
, 8/3/36, “Airmen to Earthmen;” A perusal and examination of three representative newspapers of the Nazi Reich
—Voelkischer Beobachter, Berliner Tageblatt
, and
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung—
during this period reveals that Lindbergh was welcomed as an American hero, whose presence gave validation to the technological developments in aviation.