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...service. Now 35, shrewd, reticent, he will be adopted by a wealthy man in Florida. Soon to be published is his book The White King. From Haiti he will bring with him cinema films of Voodoo cere monies, wild tribal dances, mystic sexual rites which his friends fear no censor will pass...
Last week Film Censor Dr. Seeger officially banned All Quiet's exhibition in Germany. Despite denials from the Censor's office, correspondents immediately jumped to the conclusion that mice and snakes, and Hitlerite riots were responsible. So did most Germans. Said Heinrich Mann, brother of Nobel Prizeman Thomas Mann...
...week's end U. S. correspondents suddenly learned that Censor Seeger was technically correct in denying that Hitlerites had forced the film's closing. None less than old President Paul von Hindenburg, a man who had spent a half century in the German Army, had threatened to resign "if this libel on the German soldier" was not withdrawn...
Later the Prime Minister's office reprimanded correspondents for their "error in audition," declared that what had sounded to them like "dominion self-government" were the words "freedom in self-government" actually uttered by Scot MacDonald. Fortunately the British censor could prevent the Indian press from printing this slip...
...reads him privately, as a lewd fellow. Actually a plain dealer, his outspokenness on sex got this passionate preacher a bad name. This posthumous novel, his first to appear since the privately-printed Lady Chatterley's Lover, is sufficiently outspoken, but contains no Anglo-Saxonisms that would horrify a censor...