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This malted irony suddenly appeared in Der Tag, potent Berlin newspaper owned by Herr Alfred Hugenberg, the late Hugo Stinnes' publicist: "The envious glance of the Yankee turns to rich and flourishing Germany. . . . These [German] barbarians do not even chew gum, but smoke tobacco prodigally and vulgarly. They drink real beer, eat mountains of cake with whipped cream instead of American ice cream and they consume butter, milk, eggs, poultry, and even fruit. Finally, they still drink coffee...
...Berlin Lokal-Anzeiger, another Hugenberg journal, took up the cry; and 1,600 provincial papers imitated. His Telegraphic Union serves them with distorted (Nationalist Party and People's Party) news and features. Smart Germans felt that Herr Hugenberg was laying some strategic news mesh...
Last week Herr Hugenberg bought control of Ufa (producer of Metropolis now showing in the U. S.) from the Deutsche Bank. Germans who consider themselves subtle saw the deal as the final purpose of his news stories...
Smarter Germans realized that Ufa is practically bankrupt and may possibly go into receivership unless subvened by the Reich Government. Herr Hugenberg is very close to the men back of the present Government-the industrialists. Where the Deutsche Bank can not blatantly demand a subsidy, he can slyly suggest one. And he can repay Reichstag favors by his control of news channels-through his own newspapers, his news agency and, now, his films...
...operate, if possible, without bloodshed, along semi-constitutional lines. The Cabinet was first to be unhorsed in the Reichstag and President von Hindenburg pressed to call in as Chancellor the arch-Monarchist Dr. Neumann, who was then to form a Cabinet from such notorious Fascists as Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, "the German Northcliffe," subsidizer of numerous Monarchist papers, and General von Moehl, one of the most ruthless of soldiers...