The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-12-29
Hitler Will Be Pleased
Philadelphia Record)

The Old Deal crowd continues to strengthen it's hold over the State Department
 The replacing of William E. Dodd Ambassador to Berlin with Hugh R. Wilson is more than shift in personnel It marks the victory of the State Depart ment permanent bureaucracy another New Deal appontee It is also triumph for the Nazis who dsliked the presence of a liberal in the American Embassy. And it synchronizes with the decision Of the British Tory diplomacy buy Hitler off with sessions rather than to join any front of oemocratc Powers against him
 The Third Reich will welcome but the represen- tatives of the older Germany will regret the resgna ton of MT Dodd He has many ties in that country. He took his Ph D. in 1900 at the University of Leip zig His first book, Jefferson written in Ger man and published in Germany. He was one of the first American historians defend the German people after the against the war guilt lie, and he was one of those who sympathzed with German efforts to revise the Versailles Treaty
 As a liberal thinker MT Dodd was fit represen- tative of the New Deal As a distinguished historian, whose works well known in Germany he was a worthy successor to the historians Bancroft and White who themselves Ambassadors to Germany in their time. Professor Dodd," Frederick T. Birchall re- ported recently from Berlin lis lodestone to German scholars of distinction, and his home is a favorite center for their foregatherngs9
 MT Dodd like the other New Deal appointees to foreign service has had contend with the hos tlity of the crowd which grew up in the Hard ing Coolidge Hoover era. Of the other liberals Pres- dent Roosevelt named to represent us abroad there are few left Earle went from the Ministry at Vienna to the Governorshp of Pennsylvania Bowers, Am bassador to Spain like Dodd historian and liberal has been jockeyed into silence Bullitt is the only important one who remains active and in an impor- tant post the Embassy at Paris
 There has been whispering campaign against Dodd for months, emanating from the State Depart ment. Stories that untrue have been put into circulation. Charges vague nsubstantiated and of Inc OrJp Iott hooy1 at one and the same time of being tough out spoken with the Nazis and of being hard boiled enough in dealing with them.
 The record shows that he has made comparati lively few speeches in Germany and that he has attacked or criticized the Naz regime He did is true praise Christianity at a Martin Luther celebration He did defend democracy before the American Chamber of Commerce in Berlin. He did plead in speech for freer trade These ideas anathema to the Nazis But we see no reason to muzze representatives in Germany while representatives of the Third Reich ln this country continue to address Nazi gatherings here and defend NaziSm abroad.
 We are compelled to conclude from MT Dodd' S record rom the whispering campaign against him and from the character of the who succeeds him that the motive in replacing him is to put man in Berlin who will be more palatable to the Nazis MT. Wilson Is an Old Dealer conservative of the Hoover variety and his background is that of an Economic Royalist.'
 The warning given by MT. Sumner Welles Under secretary of State and the highest placed official of the Old Deal crowd to the Fascsts in Latin America Monday weakened by his unconvincing attempt to explain away the fact that Vargas has set up dicta- torship in Brazil The replacing of Dodd by Wilson the next day further undermined hope of vigorous action to defend our interests in Latin America
 Certainly liberal Ambassador at Berlin is more likely to make effective protest against Nazi nroads in Latin America than Old Dealer more than half sympathetic to various forms of dictatorship in the past New Deal Administration ought to have New Deal diplomats; we fear that if MT Roosevelt doesn't soon take hand, Secretary Hull will be the only liberal left in the State Department