- 著者
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山澄 亨
- 出版者
- 椙山女学園大学現代マネジメント学部
- 雑誌
- 社会とマネジメント = Journal of Management and Social Studies (ISSN:13485849)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.19, pp.35-64, 2022-03-19
Abstract William E. Dodd was appointed to the U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1933-1937) after working at the University of Chicago as professor. He believed in the Jeffersonian Democracy and ardently supported Woodrow Wilson. Dodd had few acquaintances in the bureaucracy of the State Department. During staying in Germany, he continued to condemn anti-democratic, belligerent policies of the Nazi Germany. To restrain the Nazis, he envisioned an anti-German bloc, in which the U.S. took part. And he asserted that the Soviet Union joined the bloc, if possible. The State Department high officials also thought gradually that Germany was undesirable to the U.S. because German policies to the Western Hemisphere hindered the U.S. from building the sphere of influence in this area through the Good Neighbor Policy. Thus, both Dodd in Berlin and the State Department in Washington opposed to conciliatory policies to Germany, though Dodd’s opinions were often rejected by the State Department.