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arranged for the Propaganda Ministry to have all
continental Hearst information in Europe delivered
to its office at the same time it went to the Hearst
press over the world. For this service Hearst was to
receive $200,000 a year, and he at once began to
bring pressure to bear on his correspondents to give
only friendly accounts of what happened in Germany.
When he pressed that upon me, I offered to resign.
He insisted that I continue anyway, but I learned a
little later that all my reports from Germany went
directly to Hearst and were re-edited so as to fit
the new program. About the time the deal was com-
pleted, the German Propagand Ministry demanded of
Hearst my dismissal. However, some representatives
of the Reichswehr intervened on my behalf, and although
I did not know it, Hearst had not consented to my
removal. He did, however, issue an order to H.R. 
Knickeroocker, one of his special correspondents,
never again to enter Germany; and he at the same time
sent Dosch-Fleurot here from Paris to administer the
service in such a way that it would always be friendly
to the Hitler regime. However, Dosch-Fleurot's atti-
tude in the winter of 1934-35 began to change, and
now he is called home for discipline. I might add
that other representatives of the service in Germany
have been dismissed, and still others dislike to write
one-sided reports.
 
 
You will see from von Wiegand's statements
that what I told you about Hearst being an ally of
Mussolini and Hitler is correct. Von Wiegand prefers 
not to sign the document, but he asked me to give it 
verbatim, which I have done as nearly as possible. Von 
Wiegand is now definitely settled in Paris, with per-
mission to return only on special occasion to Berlin.
I have the idea that he could tell more aoout what has 
transpired in Berlin, both during the Great War and 
during the Hitler revolution, than any other man who 
was not a part of the picture. He tells me he is writing 
his autobiography, but I said to him that I doubted
whether he or anyone could tell the whole truth. 
 
 
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