The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-05-20

We don't often talk about the movies
in this column, but, after all, why not!
There are two pictures now running
that deserve some discussion.
One is Nilsson to Moscow; the other
is Air Force.
Mission to Moscow is the perversion
of history authored by Ambassador
Davies.
Air Force is largely the story OF a
Bit bomber and it's crew.
Nilsson to Moscow leaves you Won
dering how anyone can perpetrate such
hokum.
Air Force leaves you wondering
what might have happened in those
first days of the war in the Pacific II
there had been so or 100, instead of
one.
Nilsson to- Moscow is supposed to
help create better understanding OF
Russia. 1t doesn't do it.
Air Force is intended to show you
what air warfare is like and what
kind of men fight in the skies 1t does
it.
Whether Nilsson to Moscow has gov
ernment blessing isn't know. If it does,
then our government ought to change
it's course in the propaganda field.
Too many Americans know the truth
to make such a picture of any value,
except to breed derisiOn.
For picture, with the build-up back
of this one, to attempt to tell us that
Russia is democratic and that such
things as the purge trials were fair, is
asking too much-much too much.
The purge trials probably will re-
main fairly steady in history as an
example of railroading men without
anything that could even look like ii
trial to men and women whose ideas
of justice are expressed in the Anglo
Saxon code of laws and methods of
trial.
When Mr.. Davies passes the boloney
he sure passes hunk of it.
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The National Press Club in Wash
ington offered itself as sponsor for the
initial showing of Mission to Moscow
in the nations capital.
What the Press Club thought Of the
perfidous epic afterwards is not
known.
But to seek to create an understand
ing of Russia by presenting a mass of
distortion is doing nobody any good.
We can understand lot better by
knowing the exact truth.
Nobody is quarreling with Russian
institutions at the moment. Russia is
and has been fighting a grand job of
war and that's really what Americans
care about.
Russia can keep on having whatever
kind of institutions the Russian people
want or will stand for, just so long
as they don't try TO impose those in
stitutionS upon us.
That's the way it has been all along;
that's the way it is; that's the way it
will be- Davies or no Davies film or
no film.
That we shall have conflict with the
communists within our own country is
fairly obvious. The communists in
America fought our preparations for
war: they opposed the efforts of all
the democracies, until Russia broke
with Germany and started fighting. We
can expect from our precious COM
munists just what we have always had
from them. And they have always
taken their line from Moscow.
Nilsson to Moscow is tripe, any way
| you look at it.
If you have seen the picture, then go
| see Air Force and give your mind some
| fresh air.
| Air Force is drama of the most
arreSting kind. 1t shows you American
| boys in action, fighting against heavy
odds. 1t shows you what air power
can do.
| The complete annihilation of a Jap
convoy is exactly what happened.
| And the sight of Pearl Harbor on
| that morning of treachery will give
you, too, something to remember.
| And if you're gripping a little about
your war job, maybe the picture will
give you fresh courage and fresh
reason to carry on.-CMW.