Herr Hugo Stinnes, reputed richer than Henry Ford, goaded by attacks, replied to his enemies in the columns of his newspaper Die Allgemeine Zeitung:
"The hounding by the press of the Left, including the Democratic papers, and also the Centrist Germania, has assumed forms which make it seem worthwhile for me, too, to clear up the events of last week for outsiders whom evidently it was sought to lead astray."
He stated that Germany's economic life was threatened and that under existing circumstances there was no place for a tax on coal. After stating...
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