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Film Daily, New York, April 25, 1941.

Chinese Lifeline.

      BAFFLING THE INVADERS.

      Japan‘s Southward Troop-Moves.(...)

      HONG KONG, Jan. 29. – The recent admission of the

Japanese Prime Minister (Prince Konoe) to the Diet

that there is not a glimmer of hope of settlement of the „China

affair“ is but a public acknowledgment of what

intelligent Japanese opinion has long realized – that China

is a millstone which Japan voluntarily placed around

her neck.

(...) West Australian, Perth, Jan. 31, 1941 

& Chaplin Obituary

(...) People‘s Daily, Beijing, China, Jan. 1, 1978

     Chaplin Nachruf, Pekinger Volkszeitung, 1. Januar 1978

      (...) „Der Stummfilm ,Modern Times,‘ in dem

      er 1936 die Hauptrolle spielte, ist ein Film, der das

      kapitalistische System anprangert. Im damaligen

      Deutschland und Italien, die unter faschistischer Herrschaft

      standen, wurde die Aufführung verboten. Der

      Film zog zudem die Unzufriedenheit amerikanischer

      ,Film-Bosse‘ auf sich. 1940 drehte er wieder

      einen anti-faschistischen Film, ,The Great Dictator,‘ der

      zu einem hervorragenden, weltberühmten Werk

      wurde. Darin entlarvte er die Bedrohung der Faschisten

      gegenüber der ganzen Menschheit und protestierte

      gegen sie.“ (...)

& Hon. Film Smuggler

And another good yarn of how a couple of boys made a sap

out of the Jap during the late war in the tale told

about Constantin Goldin, United Artists China representative,

and how he got to be that. (...) It was „The Great Dictator“

which Goldin had to give at a command performance for the commandant of the French Indo-China post where

he first escaped. Then after he had gotten the film back and

smuggled it into Free China he had to duck

another command performance from a Chinese general.

(...) Showmen‘s Trade Review, July 19, 1947

„Record grosses are being established“

Editorial content. „UA Chinese Business for First Four Months

      Already Exceeds Total for 1940, Says Gould

      United Artists‘ business in China during the first four

months of this year already exceeds the company‘s

total business for all of 1940, according to Walter Gould,

foreign head. Record grosses are being established

on The Great Dictator, The Thief of Bagdad and Rebecca.“

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