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...began as a literary hoax. The Berliner Tageblatt in 1924 received and printed a series of satiric poems signed by one J. L. Wetcheek, "famed" U. S. poet, translated into German by Lion (Power) Feuchtwanger. Soon, however, someone discovered that Wetcheek was unknown to U. S. Kultur, that wet-cheek, moreover, was a literal translation of Feuchtwanger. Hoaxes will out. Said Author Feucht wanger, dehoaxed: "If these poems, to some extent, are an attempt to put Babbitt into lyrics, I certainly do not claim to be representative of America, a country I do not know. I wanted...
Telephone censorship was sufficiently relaxed so that one U. S. correspondent actually shouted to his Vienna office from Belgrade certain confirmative details respecting General Zivkovitch's role in the royal murders of 1903. Also the German newspapers Berliner Tageblatt and Vossische Zeitung, which were barred from Jugoslavia for criticizing the dictatorship, are now admitted freely...
Last week the "other story" was told at length by the Berlin newspaper Tageblatt, a renowned Independent organ. The Tageblatt's informant, one Essad Bey, a purported friend of Stalin's youth, wrote...
Berlin reacted cordially. The Tageblatt congratulated Mr. Hoover upon what it called his "German origins," and stated that his family name was originally Huber...
Typical of the German reaction as a whole were the Tageblatt's comment that "15,000,000 Europeans would have starved but for Herr Hoover," and the Vossische Zeitung's observation that: "Americans wish, after the colorlessness of their last two Presidents, to see a strong and big personality at the head of their State...