OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 118, 12 February 1940, Page 10

OBITUARY

Mr. William E. Dodd

NEW YORK, February 9. Mr. William E. Dodd, former United States Ambassador to Germany, is dead. The late Mr. Dodd, M.S., Ph.D. (Leipzig), LL.D., was United States Ambassador to Germany from 1933 to the beginning of 1938, when he declared that he doubted whether any American with his ideas of democracy could successfully represent the United States in Germany, “a vast region where religious freedom is denied, where intellectual initiative and discovery are not allowed, and where race hatreds are cultivated daily.” He said that when invitations had been sent to him to attend conferences where democracy was ridiculed and attacked he had, by abstaining from attendance, maintained the attitude which the United States had maintained since the Presidency of George Washington.

Mr. Dodd was born in 1569 and educated at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He was professor of history at the Randolph-Macon College from 1900 tP 1908, and of American history at the University of Chicago from 1908. He was the author of “Statesmen of the Old South.” “Expansion and Conflict,” and “Woodrow Wilson and His Work,” besides being the editor and joint author of “The Riverside History of the United States.” His daughter Martha is the author of “My Years in Germany.” Archbishop Of Dublin LONDON, February 10. The Most Rev. Edward J. Byrne, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, is dead. Dr. Byrne was born in 1872 and educated in Dublin and Rome. He was curate of the Pro-Cathedral at Dublin from 1904 to 1920, auxiliary bishop in 1920, Archbishop Assistant to the Pontifical Throne in 1932. He became Archbishop of Dublin in 1921.