Quotes About Dodd

Dodd continued to hope that the murders would so outrage the German public that the regime would fall, but as the days passed he saw no evidence of any such outpouring of anger.

Dodd was able to point out that no one would have crucified an itinerant preacher who went around encouraging people with general moral principles.

As before, Dodd believed Hitler was "perfectly sincere" about wanting peace. Now, however, the ambassador had realized, as had Messersmith before him, that Hitler's real purpose was to buy time to allow Germany to rearm. Hitler wanted peace only to prepare for war. "In the back of his mind," Dodd wrote, "is the old German idea of dominating Europe through warfare.

Dodd could not grasp how these things could be occurring in the Germany he had known and loved as a young scholar in Leipzig.

In the end, Dodd proved to be exactly what Roosevelt had wanted, a lone beacon of American freedom and hope in a land of gathering darkness.

DODD, PAPEN'S MARBURG SPEECH seemed a marker of what he had long believed—that Hitler's regime was too brutal and irrational to last. Hitler's own vice-chancellor had spoken out

Dodd's main reason for wanting to see Dieckhoff was to express his dismay at having been made to seem naive by Goebbels's Jews-as-syphilis speech after all he had done to quiet Jewish protests in America.

The article called Dodd a "small, dry, nervous, pedantic man Ã¢â'¬Â¦ whose appearance at diplomatic and social functions inevitably called forth yawning boredom.

Later, Dodd wrote a description of Hitler in his diary. "He is romantic-minded and half-informed about great historical events and men in Germany." He had a "semi-criminal" record. "He has definitely said on a number of occasions that a people survives by fighting and dies as a consequence of peaceful policies. His influence is and has been wholly belligerent.

Yes, William E. Dodd was the - became the - America's first ambassador to Nazi Germany. Prior to that, he was a professor of history at the University of Chicago - mild-mannered guy.

I thought that Dodd's comments were less about principle and more a reflection of his assessment that bashing the Fed was politically popular.

I was always puzzled by the combination of Dodd's apparently high personal regard for me and his willingness to blast the Federal Reserve, as if I had had nothing to do with the Fed's decisions and policies.

And I suspect that Graham and Dodd have been ignored by those who suffer from the misconception that trying to make serious money requires that one take serious risks.

No traditional Graham and Dodd investor invested in AOL," said a banker at the table. "They shorted it. And got fucked. They're learning the new model.

Senator Chris Dodd unveiled his plan to reduce corruption in the Senate. He's retiring.

Trachtenberg once said to me," recalled Dodd in her memoir, "that when communism came to America it would come under the label of 'progressive democracy.' 'It will come,' he added, 'in labels acceptable to the American people.

I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs!