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AP, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Cal., Sept. 11, 1941.

Senator Bennett Clark, Missouri, undated,

The Champ Clark House

& ASSAILS FILMS – Senator Bennett Champ Clark

of Missouri shown at inquiry in which he said handful of men

control films and seek to plunge nation into war.

(...) AP Wirephoto, Los Angeles Times, Sept. 11, 1941

& HUDDLE – Chairman D. Worth Clark, left, and

Wendell Willkie in huddle before continuation of film inquiry.

(...) AP Wirephoto, Los Angeles Times, Sept. 11, 1941

„To poison the minds of the American people“

Editorial content. „Film ,Monopoly‘ Flayed by Clark;

      Willkie Asserts Charges False

      Screen Handful Seek War Entry,

      Senator Claims

      WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. (AP) – Senator Clark (D) Mo.,

contended in testimony before a Senate subcommittee

today that the motion-picture industry was a ,monopoly controlled

by half-dozen men‘ who were determined to ,plunge

this nation into war.‘“ (...)

      „,I should say, next to them, though some might dispute

their claim to this distinction, is the United Artists,

which Mr. Alexander Korda now heads – a Hungarian who

is a British subject and which company is dominated

by two British subjects – Mr. Alexander Korda and Mr. Charlie

Chaplin, who has lived in this country for 30 years

and made a great fortune here, and never thought well

enough of the United States to become a citizen.

      ,POISON MINDS‘

      ,Both of them are using the instruments of the screen

which they have in their possession to poison the

minds of the American people to go to war for their respective

native countries.‘“ (...)

      AP, Associated Press.

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