WILLIAM E. DODD, UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR TO GERMANY, OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED HIS RESIGNATION FROM THE POST IN AN INTERVIEW WITH NEWSPAPERMEN TODAY.
THE ENVOY, WHOSE RESIGNATION BECOMES EFFECTIVE EARLY IN JANUARY, ADMITTED HE HAD SUFFERED SOME “REAL DISCOURAGEMENT” AFTER ASSUMING THE POST IN JULY, 1933, BUT EMPHASIZED THAT HE AND ALL OTHER AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR REPRESENTATIVES HAD ALWAYS “CORDIALLY COLLABORATED” WITH THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT.
MR. DODD WILL BE REPLACED BY HUGH R. WILSON, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE. ACCORDING TO A DISPATCH IN THE NEW YORK POST, SOME OBSERVERS IN WASHINGTON SEE IN THE SHIFT IMPLICATIONS OF A MAJOR CHANGE IN POLICY TOWARD NAZI GERMANY. IT WAS POINTED OUT THAT THE REPLACING OF MR. DODD, WHO HAS BEEN DECIDEDLY UNPOPULAR WITH THE NAZIS, FOLLOWS A MILDER ATTITUDE ON THE PART OF GREAT BRITAIN.
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