A few weeks ago The Nation (Manhattan Liberal weekly) declared that Herr Hugo Stinnes owned "from 40% to 90% of the German press." Last week a denial came from Germany:
"As manager of the newspaper owned by Herr Stinnes, I am in a position to assure you that he owns but the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (published in Berlin and Frankfurt-am-Main), the Industrie und Handdszeitung and the Frankfurter Nachrichten.
"Herr Stinnes neither owns nor controls any other daily newspaper.
" Humann " Office of Hugo Stinnes
" Berlin."
A few months ago it could have been...