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...have just read the telegram from John Huston and other Hollywood "firsts" in the April 20 issue of TIME. I feel gratified that these intelligent and courageous people have come to the defense of Lew Ayres...
...book thus touted is Manuel Komroff's In the Years of Our Lord (Harper; $2.50), a new novel about the life of Christ to add to the brief fiction shelf which includes Lew Wallace's Ben Hur (over 2,000,000 copies since 1880), George Moore's pale The Brook Kerith (1916), Bruce Barton's Rotarian The Man Nobody Knows (1925) and Sholem Asch's lush The Nazarene (1939). (Some would include Kenan's famed Vie de Jesus...
...LEW AYRES IS NOW PAYING THE PRESCRIBED PENALTY FOR ONE WHO REFUSES TO TAKE UP ARMS (TIME, APRIL 6). IT is A JUST PENALTY
...SUFFICIENT ONE. THE GOVERNMENT WHICH DETERMINED THAT PENALTY DOES NOT INDICT HIM AS A SLACKER OR AS AN EVADER OF THE DRAFT. WERE HE EITHER HE WOULD HAVE BEEN PLACED BEHIND BARS TO BE KEPT AT THE EXPENSE OF THE STATE. AT THE INTERNMENT CAMP TO WHICH LEW AYRES HAS BEEN SENT HE PAYS IN MONEY AND LABOR FOR HIS BOARD AND KEEP. WE DO NOT ADVOCATE THE THING THAT LEW AYRES HAS DONE. IN FACT WE BELIEVE IT TO BE THE SAD RESULT OF A SADDER MISCONCEPTION BUT WE TAKE OCCASION TO POINT OUT THAT HE SPOKE AND ACTED...
...spite of their undoubtedly good intentions, the film distributors who have ostracized conscientious objector Lew Ayre's may be classed with the school principals who expelled juvenile Jehovah's Witnesses for their religious views. It would be different if there were some doubt as to Ayres's sincerity. If he had suddenly been converted to the stand he has taken, or if there were any other reason to believe that his views were purely opportunistic, then there might be some justification for banning his pictures. But the fact is that nobody has denied his sincerity, and no informed person doubts...