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...bombing of the Basques at Guernica. Idaho's eloquent old William Edgar Borah rose in the Senate one day last fortnight to denounce fascism, warn of increasing fascist activity in the U. S. His alarm, it soon appeared, was shared by Ambassador to Germany William Edward Dodd. In an extraordinary letter sent to Senators Bulkley, Glass and others last March, and given to the press by Senator Glass last week, the Ambassador passed along rumors that several Senators and a man "who owns nearly a billion dollars" were favorably disposed toward a U. S. dictatorship (TIME. May 17). Instead...
There were at least two reasons for the grizzled Senator's violence. Ambassador Dodd, a North Carolina-born history professor whose particular heroes are Thomas Jefferson and Woodrow Wilson, had inserted his dictator gossip in a long historical screed reviewing instances in which minorities, working through the Supreme Court and otherwise, had frustrated the people's will. First instance he mentioned was the fight of 1919 by which Senator Borah and other Irreconcilables blocked U. S. entry into the League of Nations. Condemning Jefferson's old enemy, Chief Justice John Marshall, as a tool of the interests...
William E. Dodd is an able, courageous scholar, but his penchant for drawing lessons from the past has more than once carried him out of diplomatic bounds. Last week Idaho's Borah and other Senate foes of the President's Plan were as furious at his ambassadorial intrusion into 1937's hottest political fight as were Nazis when Ambassador Dodd. in one of his first Berlin speeches, used the careers of the Caesars as his springboard for a two-footed jump on dictatorships...
...Dodd should be recalled," cried Utah's King...
North Dakota's Nye, as usual, wanted a Senate investigation. He introduced a resolution to direct the State Department to cable Ambassador Dodd for his billionaire's name. But Senator Nye was not to have the fun and publicity which Congressional inquisitors got out of the dictator nightmares of Major General Smedley Butler and Gary's Dr. William Wirt in 1934. Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Key Pittman promptly came to the aid of the State Department by getting the resolution referred to his committee for "study and inquiry...