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...Dodd Letter...
...received a memorandum from 131 junior teaching officers of the University requesting them to report upon the issues raised by the University's action in respect to Messrs. J. R. Walsh and A. R. Sweezy, instructors in Economics. The memorandum was addressed to the following nine professors: E. Merrick Dodd, Jr., Felix Frankfurter, Elmer P. Kohler, Edmund M. Morgan, Samuel E. Morison, Kenneth B. Murdock, Ralph B. Perry, Arthur M. Schlesinger, and Harlow Shapley...
Bound home from his fishing trip, President Roosevelt declined to comment directly on the Dodd letter, but newshawks aboard the Presidential special learned from his "associates" that he was inclined to share his Ambassador's fears. Though unconcerned about whether any particular billionaire was planning a fascist putsch, the President was represented as believing that a dictatorship might indeed result unless his foes were held in check...
...Berlin meantime Ambassador Dodd, stoutly refusing to divulge names, allowed himself to be pinned down to a statement that "three well-informed Americans talked to me in 1935 and 1936 about certain powerful men who were thinking of a dictatorship...
Crackled the Ambassador's 89-year-old father, John Daniel Dodd, in Fuquay Springs. N. C.: "Will knows everything. You can bet your last dollar that whenever Will says anything he knows what he is talking about. And, furthermore, you might as well try to move the sun as try to make Will tell anything that he's not a mind to tell. He's nearly as stubborn...