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the Wind" played by Helen Hayes
and a notable cast, and if Holly
wood isn't too scared TO ask some
day for permission from the isola-
ZIONIST Senators or whoever is going
to pass on such things hereafter
to put this new play on the screen
it VIII spread more propaganda"
than any of its predecessors.
But it's a somewhat different kind
of propaganda than is usually as
ISOLATED with the word. It's
propaganda for the human spirit
itsef-a propaganda, Cor instance.
that brings out the soul of the hon
est German and reveals the dra-
matte struggle with conscience that
must be going on among millions
of Germans, notwithstanding their
Imprisonment under the Nazi yoke.
Stirs Bitter Emotion.
It does this, moreover, in a play
which is plainly anti-Hitler, focus
ing attention on graft-ridden
army and ghouish bureaucracy that
feyles petty tribute on the innocent
and poor relatives of war prisoners.
There is also exhibited to view the
spirit Of resistance back of the snip
ing against German officers in OC-
eupied France. While the terrible
aspects of Nazi brutality in concen-
tration camps are wildly empha-
sized with a realism that stirs the
emotions to bitterness, the play
shows how inside even the German
Army there are young officers who
recognize the Nazi system as the
negatiOn of all human instinct to
Kindness and brotherhood. These
young men seem to be seeking es-
cape but are helpless as yet to eff
feet their own freedom.
Too many people today are ready
TO condemn all Germans for the
miSdeeds of the NaziS. Too MANY
people in America and in Britain
are seeking TO outlaw the German
nation for all times. forgetting that
no nation is as bad as those who
mlSrule 1t. The fact that Maxwell
Anderson, who wrote the play. was
ready to perceive the fine impulses
that beat in the hearts of some
German Army officers while at the
same time presenting drama that
reveals the Nazi system at its worst
Is in itself an encouraging sign of
the times For it recognizes that
ultimately the German nation must
lid itself of Nazi rule.
The Senator'S who have been
investigating the tie-up between
movie producers and the exhibitors
and an such related subjects may
be surprised to find that this new
play is put on by company of
playwrights, including Robert Sher-
wood, Elmer Rice and Maxwell An
derson, and it was directed by Alfred
Iunt. Now it is a fact that Mr..
Sherwood is member of the Fight
for Freedom Committee and all the
other committees which the isola-
ZIONIST Senators accuse of making
propaganda to drag us into war"
When playWrights put on their own
plays and finance them maybe this
is some kind of monopoly. ANY,
way there is as little basis for a
Senate inquiry Of this new play and
It's producers as there was for the
investigation of the movie producers
and the war plays they presented
to the public.
Deserves a Review.
Maybe the Senators feel that the
spoken drama can be let alone be-
cause 1t doesn't reach as many peo-
pie as the movies. Maybe they
think the movie-going public isn't
sufficiently intelligent to do its own
discriminating as between plays
with or without propaganda. But
certainly if there is any consistency
left on Capitol Hill, Candle in the
Wind" deserves a thorough-going
senatorial review. There can be not
the slightest doubt of the impression
the authors sought to implant when
thew II Mayhp too thew in