Editing Anne Morrow Lindbergh (section)

==Return to U.S.==
In April 1939, the Lindberghs returned to the United States. Because of his outspoken beliefs about a future war that would envelop their homeland, the antiwar [[America First Committee]] quickly adopted Charles as its leader in 1940.<ref name="Jennings and Brewer p. 420"/>

In 1940, Anne published a 41-page booklet, ''The Wave of the Future: A Confession of Faith'', which "swiftly became the No. 1 nonfiction bestseller in the country."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Olson |first1=Lynne |title=Those Angry Days |date=2013 |publisher=Random House |location=New York |page=245}}</ref> Writing in support of her husband's lobbying efforts for a U.S.-German peace treaty similar to [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler's]] [[Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union|Non-Aggression Treaty]] with [[Joseph Stalin]],<ref name="NYTImes-2001.12.30">Plunket, Robert. [https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/30/magazine/the-lives-they-lived-anne-morrow-lindbergh-b-1906-the-heroine.html "The Lives They Lived: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, B. 1906: The Heroine."] ''The New York Times'', December 30, 2001.</ref> Anne argued that the rise of [[fascism]] and [[communism]] in Germany, Italy, and Russia were manifestations of an inevitable historical "wave of the future",<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lindbergh |first1=Anne |title=The Wave of the Future |date=1940 |publisher=Harcourt Brace & Co |location=New York |page=34}}</ref> though "the evils we deplore in these systems are not in themselves the future; they are scum on the wave of the future."<ref name="The Wave of the Future">{{cite book |last1=Lindbergh |first1=Anne |title=The Wave of the Future |date=1940 |publisher=Harcourt Brace & Co |location=New York |page=19}}</ref> She compared these movements to the [[French Revolution]] for their deplorable violence, but also for their "fundamental necessity". She therefore urged the futility of any ideological war against them.<ref name="The Wave of the Future"/> Her writing echoed authors such as [[Lawrence Dennis]] and presaged that of [[James Burnham]].<ref>Lindbergh 1976, p. 224.</ref>

The Roosevelt administration subsequently attacked ''The Wave of the Future'' as, in an April 1941 speech by [[United States Secretary of the Interior|Interior Secretary]] [[Harold L. Ickes|Harold Ickes]], "the bible of every American Nazi, Fascist, [[German American Bund|Bundist]] and Appeaser", and the booklet became one of the most despised writings of the period;<ref>Batten, Geoffrey. "Obituary: Anne Morrow Lindbergh." ''[[The Independent]]'', February 15, 2001.</ref><ref name="NYTimes-2001.02.08">Pace, Eric. [https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/08/books/anne-morrow-lindbergh-94-dies-champion-of-flight-and-women-s-concerns.html "Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Author and Aviator, Dies at 94."] ''The New York Times'', February 8, 2001.</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Olson |first=Lynne |author-link=Lynne Olson |date=2013 |title=Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941 |url= |location=New York |publisher=Random House Trade Paperbacks |page=313 |isbn=978-0-8129-8214-5}}</ref> in December 1940, E.B. White published a much-read and much-quoted critique in ''The New Yorker'' that "systematically attacked the logic of its argument."<ref>Scott Elledge, ''E.B. White: A Biography'' (New York: W.W. Norton, 1984), p. 224.</ref> Anne had also written in a letter that [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] was "a very great man, like an inspired religious leader—and as such rather fanatical—but not scheming, not selfish, not greedy for power".<ref name="NYTimes-2001.02.08" />

After the [[Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor]] and [[German declaration of war against the United States|Germany's declaration of war against the U.S.]], the America First Committee disbanded, and Charles eventually managed to become involved in the military and enter combat only as a civilian consultant, flying 50 missions in this role and even shooting down an enemy aircraft.<ref>[http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/lindbergh2.htm "Charles Lindbergh in Combat, 1944."] ''EyeWitness to History'', 2006. Retrieved: July 20, 2009.</ref><ref name=475thFighterGroup>[http://www.charleslindbergh.com/wwii/ "Charles Lindbergh and the 475th Fighter Group"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051220060939/http://www.charleslindbergh.com/wwii/ |date=December 20, 2005}}. charleslindbergh.com. Retrieved: October 4, 2022.</ref>

In this period, Anne met the French writer, poet and pioneering aviator [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]], author of the novella ''[[The Little Prince]]''. Though Anne found "St-Ex" attractive, the two did not have a secret affair, as is sometimes erroneously reported.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.economist.com/node/505192 |title=Anne Lindbergh: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, a hero's co-pilot, died on February 7th, aged 94. |newspaper=[[The Economist]] |date=February 15, 2001 |access-date=January 5, 2016}}</ref>

After Charles Jr., the Lindberghs had five more children: sons [[Jon Lindbergh|Jon]], Land, and Scott, and daughters [[Anne Lindbergh|Anne]] and [[Reeve Lindbergh|Reeve]].<ref>Green, Penelope. [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/garden/17lindbergh.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 "But Enough About Them."] ''The New York Times'', April 17, 2008.</ref><ref>Hertog 2000, p. 24.</ref>