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CRITICIZE FORD AND LINDBERGH CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 19. Because they accepted medals from the Nazi government, Henry Ford and Col. Charles A. Lindbergh today were the objects of severe criticism from Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. Speaking at a banquet of the Cleveland Zionist Society, Ickes lashed out at Ford and Lindbergh in a plea for worldwide tolerance referring to the decorations presented by the German government. Ickes said: "It would seem to me that any American who accepts such a trinket, defaced as it is by the sufferings and miseries and degradation of a helpless, innocent people, automatically forswears his American birthright. How can any American who calls himself a Christian, or who pretends to believe in the enlightened principles that constitute the warp and woof of our American "life, accept a decoration from the hand of a brutal dictator who, with the same hand, is robbing and torturing thousands of fellow human beings?"
