FORMER AMBASSADOR DEAD

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21577, 13 February 1940, Page 5

FORMER AMBASSADOR DEAD

Was Critic Of Nazi Regime

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright

NEW YORK, February 9.

Dr William E. Dodd, former United States Ambassador to Germany, is

Dr Dodd was Untied 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 saicL 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.

DEATH OF PRIMATE OF IRELAND

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright

LONDON, February 9

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 1929, and Archbishop Assistant at the Pontiflciai Throne in 1932. He became Archbishop of Dublin in 1921.