GERMAN PROTEST
AMERICAN'S SPEECH
U.S. DENIES RESPONSIBILITY
(Received January 17, 9 a.m.)
, WASHINGTON, January IC. The German Ambassador, Dr. Dieckhoff, protested to the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, against the speech of Dr. W. E. Dodd, until recently Ambassador to Germany, at a dinner in his honour, as "an unheard-of 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 bitter attack on the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, Dr. Dodd said: "All the world knows how he denied religious, personal, and PreS3 freedom, how universities and schools were put under party control, and how almost as many of his 'personal opponents were killed in five years as Charles II executed in twenty years in the seventeenth, century." He alleged that Germany started the World War, and said that President Wilson, in August, 1915, foresaw the necessity for the entry of the United States 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. "The United States is as much to blame for the grave dangers at present as any other country."
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Evening Post, Volume CCXV, Issue 13, 17 January 1938, Page 9
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