GERMAN PROTEST.
DR. DODD’S ATTACK. WASHINGTON, Jan. 36. The German Ambassador (Dr. Dieckhoff) has protested to the Secretary of State (Mr Cordell Hull) against the speech of Dr. W. E. Dodd, until recently Ambassador to Germany 7, at a dinner in his honour, as “an unheardof insult” to a friendly nation. Mr Hull has replied that Dr. Dodd is no longer in an official office, and that his utterances do not represent the views of the United States Government.
. In a hitler attack on the German Chancellor (Ilerr Hitler), Dr. Dodd said: “All the world knows how he denied religious, personal, and Press freedom, how universities and schools wore put under party control, and how almost as many of his personal opponents were killed in five years as Charles II executed in 20 years in' the seventeenth century.” lie alleged that Germany started t'iio World War, and said that President Wilson, in August, 1915, foresaw the necessity for the entry of the United Slates to forestall European domination by the German military group. “Mankind is in grave danger, but democratic Governments do not seem to know what to do.” Dr. Dodd added. “Hie United States is as much to blame for the grave dangers at present as any other country.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 42, 18 January 1938, Page 7
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