Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Release of the protest followed the opening of "The Iron Curtain" at the Metropolitan Theater last Thursday...
There are, of course, conflicting views on "The Iron Curtain." The New York Roxy is now being picketed by the (Wallace) Committee Against War Propaganda. And those pickets, in turn, are being counter-picketed by the Catholic War Veterans. A petition of protest against the film has been signed by 297 leading Protestant clergy over the country, including five bishops. On the opening night, there was a near-riot beneath the Roxy marquee, involving reported 2,000 persons. Mr. Spyros P. Skouras, of 20th Century Fox, said "those who banded together last night to boycott the film are attacking...
Communism, Theologian Bennett concludes, which began as a moral protest against social injustice, has turned into a tyranny because it has no transcendent faith to preserve it from idolatry, and no real understanding of the meaning of personal freedom. And all this was largely "because Christians did not see until too late the revolutionary demands in their own faith...
Several members of the Wallace group joined picket lines around the Greek Consulate in Boston after the meeting, in protest against alleged government executions of Greek citizens...
...Edith Summerskill, parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of Food, shrilled that the film was "likely to pervert the minds of the British people." The Bishop of London, as chairman of the Public Morality Council, sent a protest. Watch committees from the provinces hustled to London to pass judgment. Last week, after threat of banning, the picture was pruned a bit. Out went the kicking scene, also one where a gangster smashed a decanter across the face of an unoffending barkeep. However, the producers promised that, for export, No Orchids would remain unexpurgated...