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...bring his famed "Liberty law" to the official attention of the German Reichstag (TIME, Oct. 28) bristling Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, fiery nationalist, "Hearst of Germany," needed to obtain the votes of 10% of the German electorate. Last week, aided by a heavy vote from truculent Pomeranians and East Prussians, he squeaked through with...
...biggest cinema trust in Europe is Universum Film Aktiengesellschaft, known as UFA. The biggest independent telegraph agency on the continent is Telegrapher Union Internationale, or T. U. Both Ufa and T. U. belong to potent, slightly sinister Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, bristle-haired Junker. These and his famed Berlin newspapers (Der Tag, Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger) have given Dr. Hugenberg one of the most efficient machines for moulding public opinion in the world. He needed it last week, for he was attempting to force through by popular referendum a law denying Germany's War guilt, forbidding German acceptance of the Young...
...Gerhart Hauptmann, Artist Max Liebermann, Professor Adolph von Harnack, Scientist Max Planck. Hindenburg. Just as in Wartime both sides claim the Deity for their partisan, so last week did both armies in the great Battle of the Referendum claim the support of grizzled old Hero President Paul von Hindenburg. Hugenberg followers quoted the President's famed speech "protesting the War guilt lie" at the anniversary of the Battle of Tannenberg in 1927, as proof that he sympathized with them. Anti-referendumists quoted von Hindenburg's thanks to Foreign Minister Stresemann on his return from The Hague Parley (TIME...
...position of UFA at the Congress was no less commanding than its position at Neubabelsberg. Behind the scenes was the slightly sinister figure of Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, owner of UFA and the most powerful publisher in Germany. Among his agencies are the Telegraphen Union Internationale, greatest independent agency in Europe and the Berlin newspapers Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger, Der Tag and Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (official organ of the German Foreign Office...
...Herr Hugenberg remained in the background while the Congress deliberated. But his lieutenant, General Director Ludwig Klitzsch of UFA, made a significant speech. He hinted at new tariffs to keep the flood of U. S. pictures from German theatres. He spoke of "cooperation in the European film industry and the word 'film-Europe,' " strongly suggestive of a European cartel aimed at the U. S. cinema industry. When he had finished, alarmed U. S. observers hastened to Paris to confer...