FOREIGN SERVICE: Dodd to Germany

An hour after President Roosevelt announced his Ambassador to Germany last week, Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson, Democratic leader of the upper House and a principal Presidential spokesman at the Capitol, uprose to declaim: "The Nazi administration has startled and shocked mankind by the severe policies enforced against Jews. ... It is sickening and terrifying to realize that a great people should respond to impulses of cruelty and inhumanity which when they have spent their force will have lowered German civilization in the opinion of all people. . . ."

It was Chancellor...

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