OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 35, 10 February 1940, Page 12

OBITUARY

MR. WILLIAM DODD

CRITICAL AMBASSADOR TO

GERMANY

(Received February 10, 1.20 p.m.)

NEW YORK, February 9

Mr. William E. Dodd, former United State 3 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 I which the United States had maintained since the Presidency of George Washington. Mr. Dodd was born in 1869 and educated at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He was Professor of History at the Randolph-Macon College from 1900 to 1908, and of American History at the University of i Chicago from 1908. He was the author of "Statesmen of the Old South," 'Ex- j pansion 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, was the author of "My Years in Germany."