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Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif., Sept. 13, 1941.

„Gee, You Scared Me - I Thought You Were Chaplin“

      NAZI PROPAGANDA   NYE-CLARK COMMITTEE

(...) Caricature, High Point Enterprise, High Point,

North Carolina, Sept. 20, 1941

& ACCUSES MOVIES

      Senator Bennett Champ Clark at the Senate Interstate

Commerce committee hearing yesterday.

(...) Associated Press Wirephoto, New York Times,

Sept. 11, 1941

„Ordered to testify on Oct. 6“

Editorial content. „Chaplin Called as Witness

      in Senate Film Investigation

      By a Times Staff Correspondent

      WASHINGTON, Sept. 13. – Charlie Chaplin and two other

Hollywood figures were subpoenaed today by the Senate

Interstate Commerce Committee to tell what they know about

asserted motion-picture propaganda to get the United

States into war.

      After hearing repeated complaints about The Great Dictator,

in which the British-born comedian burlesqued Adolf

Hitler, Senator Clark (D.) Ida., issued a summons for Chaplin‘s

appearance before the Propaganda investigating

committee of which he is chairman. Chaplin was ordered

to testify on Oct. 6.“ (...)

      Charles Chaplin, William R. Wilkerson, publisher

      of the Hollywood Reporter, and Anatole Litvak, director

      for Warner Brothers, do not testify on Oct. 6, 1941.

    

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