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"What Goering had asked me to come to see him about was very simple.

Universal Service wanted him to write a regular article every month or two.

He had agreed to do so, if he could clear it with Hitler and if the price was right...

Every Sunday the Hearst newspapers and other journals which subscribed to Universal Service published an article by a well-known foreign political figure.

Lloyd George and Winston Churchill in England and Clemenceau and Poincare in France had been regular contributors and Mussolini soon became one. Our New York office suggested getting, since we could not have Hitler, who had turned us down, the number-two Nazi. This had led me to call Goering.

He turned out to be, as I expected, a tough bargainer. We gave him a top price to begin with and he was always asking for more money for ensuing pieces. I must say he was genial enough about it, though persistent.

'Come on,' he would say. 'Your Mr. Hearst is a billionaire, nicht wahr?

What's a thousand or two more dollars per article to him?' "