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...union, and enabled him to become the only independent film producer in Argen tina. With Evita's support, he was able to buck the powerful Argentine Film Producers' Association, even though its top men were her brother Juan Duarte, the President's private secretary, and Raul Apold, Peron's propaganda chief. Del Carril produced, directed and starred in two big hits, one a semi-documentary that won honorable mention at the Venice film fes tival and was probably the best movie ever made in Argentina...
After Evita's death, Apold and Duarte whetted the knife for Del Carril. First they cut off his film supply. Then, a fort night ago, Apold planted a story in the newspaper Critica that spelled the end of Del Carril's artistic career in Argentina...
...Government claimed to possess proof last week that Director Apold would have received a portfolio in the Nazi Cabinet expected to be formed in Austria, after Dollfuss' assassination, by the late Chancellor's treacherous Minister to Italy. Dr. Anton Rintelen who sought to commit suicide when the insurrection failed. Dr. Rintelen was convalescent last week and Director Apold was supposed to know something about an attempt by Nazis to kidnap Rintelen out of his hospital ''because he knows too much." This attempt Vienna police foiled in time's nick. Last week Director Apold...
...controlled by the German Steel Trust of Fritz Thyssen, No. 1 contributor to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party funds. Unable to crack down on Thyssen in Germany, the Austrian Government last week sent soldiers to A. M. G.'s resident Director General Herr Anton Apold. Under his nose they shoved an order from the Ministry of Justice, demanding $40,000 reparation for damage done in Styria by Nazi rebels, plus $30,000 as the Government's estimated cost for suppressing the rebellion...
...Herr Apold waved his hands, spluttered. All Styria knew that A. M. G. had been behind the attempted Nazi Putsch. A few years ago A. M. G. used to back not the Nazis but the Heimwehr, private army of Austria's present Vice Chancellor, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg. It was doubtless Thyssen who caused A. M. G. to switch over to what, for the present at least, has proved the losing side. Reputedly last week it was the Heimwehr, furious at their former backer, who demanded that Chancellor Schuschnigg squeeze the 'Iron Mountain...
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