Evening star., 1933-10-13
DODD TALK WARNS
BERLIN OF DANGER.
Speech, Regarded as Signifi-
cant in Germany, Draws
Acrid Press Response.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, October 13.-Ventures car
ried too far upon uncharted courses"
during strenuous times always result IN
reactions, and sometimes disaster"
William E. Dodd, the United States Am
bassador. said yesterday in a luncheon
speech before the American Chamber
Of Commerce.
The speech was considered Of such
Significance the semi Official Wolff News
Agency announced 1t was supplying the
full text to German newspapers.
May we not reasonably expect OF the
statesmen today" the Ambassador asked,
Sufficient knowledge of the past blum
ders to realize that II the Western civil
ization is to survive they must find
way to avoid crime and the terrific
disasters Of war, learn how to develop
in q friendly spirit the resources OF the
undeyeloped regions Of the world lower,
and not raise, the barriers against the
migration Of the surplus population. and
facilitate, not defeat, the interchange
Of surplus goods?"
Higher Culture Possible.
"v,ith these rational changes OF In
tern: tional procedure" Dodd continued,
"a higher culture might easily be car
ried to the masses everywhere: without
these. another war and chaos"
The Ambassador held that "in times
of great stress men are too apt to
abandon too much OF their past social
devices and venture too far upon un-
charted courses" adding: THE conse.-
ouence always has been reaction, and
sometimes a disaster"
TT would be no sin," the speaker
added, If the statesmen learned erough
history to realize that no system imply
ing the control of society by privileged
seekers ever ended IN any other way
than collapse.
"The Wisest of all the American
statesmen insisted all his life that the
wav to develop an ideal social order was
to leave every man the utmost free
dom of initiative and action and always
to forbid any man or group to ronteer
at the expense Of others"
Press Comment Slight.
Der Tag was the only newspaper to
comment today upon the speech. ..
Commenting on Dodd's statement, ~
would be no sin If statesmen learned
enough history to realize no system nm,
plyin0 control of society by privileged
seekers ever ended in any other way
than a collapse" Der Tag said:
"Such. too, was the end Of the par
liamentary plutocratic Weimar system
(the German constitutional system).,
It similarly interjects, that is prob
ably why we are denied colonies. after
quoting from Dodd's speech: States
men TODAY must learn how to
develop in a friendly spirit the re-
sources of the undeveloped regions OF
the world"
Elucidation is Awaited.
Then it continues: 1T is necessary 10
await a very precise elucidation OF the
| following statement by Mr.. Dodd:
Half educated statesmen today
swing violently away from the idea
purposes of the first Gracious the Ro-
man reformer who used a persona
! army in 1873 B. c. to champion i'm
poverished farmers and the lower
classes and think they find salvation
| for their troubled fellows in the arbi'
trary modes of a man who fell an easy
victim to the cheap devices OF the leWo
Cleopatra.
They forget that the Gracious de-
mocracy failed upon the narrowest o.
margins and the Caesars succeeded only
for a short period as measured by th'
tests of history
We've a shrewd notion" said Del
Tag, that Washington won't be very
delighted at hearing this"