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...legacy. Interrupted by war and Russian occupation, the suit dragged on. In 1950 Anna herself, a fuzzy-minded, aging woman surrounded by a court of solicitous refugees, was living in an old army shack on the edge of the Black Forest, as a poverty-stricken pensioner of Prince Friedrich Ernst von Sachsen-Altenburg...
Morris L. Ernst, author and lawyer who defended James Joyce's "Ulysses" against the charge of obscenity and won, stated his argument more forcefully. "Men have always been frightened with ideas.... Their latest target is obscenity.... I don't happen to frighten easily," he said...
...Ernst claimed, however, that it is not for the lawyers to decide what is censorable, but for the social scientists who can correlate pictures and words to behavioral patterns. He said that their studies to date show no reason for censorship...
...Ernst replied that he did not believe in the common standards of decency. He said that even among Roman Catholics there is no common ground, the Irish with a Puritan background and the Latins thinking in entirely different ways. He also claimed that it is abnormal for Catholic nuns and priests to judge obscenity for people who are not celibate as they are, therefore having a different attitude toward...
...carrying his argument to an absolute conclusion, Ernst said that he considers all motion picture codes illegal and has been waiting for years to fight them in court but producers are afraid to take code decisions to court...