Word: standoff
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Result was another standoff. For direct quotation onetime History Professor Dodd declared of his interview: "We accompanied the delivery of our instructions with a verbal expose of what the attacks mean in the way of beclouding German-American relations, but left it to the German authorities to draw their own conclusions." U. S. correspondents in Berlin reported authoritatively that mild Ambassador Dodd had actually barked one of the stiffest complaints ever delivered by one Government to another, proclaiming the U. S. Government & people thoroughly shocked by the Nazi press's "unparalleled coarse, indecent language." But his trip...