BITTER ATTACK ON HITLER

Southland Times, Issue 23408, 15 January 1938, Page 5

BITTER ATTACK ON HITLER

American Diplomat’s

Condemnation FURTHER ALLEGATIONS BY DR DODD (Received January 14, 6.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, January 13. Dr W. E. Dodd, addressing a dinner given in his honour, bitterly attacked Hitler, saying: “All the world knows how he denied religious, personal and Press freedom, how universities and schools were put under party control, and how almost as many personal opponents were killed in five years as Charles II executed in 20 years in the seventeenth century.” He alleged that Germany started the World War, and said President Wilson in August 1915 foresaw the necessity of the United States’s entry to forestall European domination by the German military group. He added: ‘ Mankind is in grave danger, but democratic Governments do not seem to know what to do. The United States is as much to blame for the grave dangers at present as any other country.

In an interview on his retirement as United States Ambassador to Berlin, Dr W. E. Dodd bitterly condemned the Hitler regime of religious persecutions and racial hatreds. He said he had resigned himself to despair because he was unable to accomplish any good in the face of the Nazi policies. Referring to his refusal to attend a Nazi Party rally at Nuremberg, Dr Dodd asked: "Was it the duty of representatives of democratic countries to attend conferences at which democracy was ridiculed and attacked? I do not think so.” Dr Dodd uttered the warning that another great war was threatening because of the frenzied armaments race.