William E. Dodd, former Ambassador to Germany, declared tonight that the United States, by failing to cooperate with other nations in preserving peace, was partially to blame for the menace of war and the endangering of religious, personal and economic liberties by Fascist powers.
In an address prepared for delivery at a dinner in his honor at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, Mr. Dodd said that “the people of practically all countries hoped and prayed for Woodrow Wilson’s success, yet the governments and certain privileged business groups defeated them.”
Touching on Germany in reviewing the background of “The International Dilemma,” Mr. Dodd asserted:
“A curious reactionary group in England was willing to see Hitler annex the Balkan states of 80,000,000 population — the same group willing to see Mussolini dominate Spain. And while these policies were being applied, the French and English masses trembling with fear of another war, Hitler persecuted, imprisoned and even expelled Jews as Russia had done before the world War. Hitler proclaimed the Germans as pure Aryans, unaware that about half their people, due to medieval conquests, were really Slavic or Latin.”
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