When President Roosevelt was picking his ambassadors he had the thumping idea of sending a Jew to Berlin as the best guarantee that U. S.-Jewish interests would be protected in the Fatherland. But no Jew seemed to want the hottest U. S. embassy. Even rich Gentiles seemed to have no zeal to be Ambassador to Nazi-dom and the President had to coax into service able but impecunious Professor William Edward Dodd (TIME, June 19. 1933). Last week, however, the still thumping idea of sending a Jew as Ambassador to Berlin was executed with a...
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