November 9, 1936.
 
 
 
My dear Dodd:-
 
 
I like your "long story" even though it is not an optomistic one.
 
 
I am off in a week to, I hope, Buenos Aires. That visit will have little practical or immediate effect in Europe but at least the forces of example will help if the knowledge of it can be spread down to the masses of the people in Germany and Italy.
 
 
Incidentally, I think the results last Tuesday may have made the German and Italian populace a little envious of democratic methods.
 
 
I hope to see your daughter before I leave.
 
 
 
Honorable William E. Dodd,                                                  American Embassy,                                                           Berlin, 
Germany.