Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Mr. Dewey gets Dixie, doxie and Weinberg back to Manhattan, tabloid editors expect a trial as spectacular as the trial last year of Charles ("Lucky") Luciano for his prostitute trust...
...world is concerned with its destiny, it would be wise for it to turn its eyes this week to Germany and the trial of Pastor Niemoeller. The issues at stake are those for which civilized people have been fighting for centuries. But this is a conflict of moral as well as political principles. Pastor Niemoeller is defending not only the rights of religious liberty and free speech, but also the fundamental tenets of Christianity as opposed to the doctrines of the Nazi creed. Only a firm stand by all who call themselves Christians can now save the central principles...
...state. Niemoeller is being charged for using his pulpit for political purposes, inciting the public to disobedience to the state, and making malicious attacks on the Nazi party. But the judges have tacitly admitted that the welfare of the state transcends the rights of the individual by closing the trial to the public, on the grounds that "the testimony was of a nature involving danger to the state and people." Thus without trial the state has predetermined that Niemoeller's utterances are "dangerous", and there is no reason to suppose that this attitude will change during the trial. The movie...
...political pressure, and that only the Roman Catholic and "Confessional" Churches, firm in their convictions, remain in open conflict with the government. The Christian Church, claiming interest in the whole life of the individual, is necessarily interested in politics, and cannot confine itself to "spiritual" duties. Pastor Niemoeller's trial may well determine whether Christians are willing to allow a political power to overrule the central principles of the Faith...
...Portia On Trial" is the first important production of Republic Pictures, and should be viewed with indulgence, as should Miss Inescort, a nervous young lady recently imported from the New York stage. The dialogue is crude, and most of the parts are overacted. The film has its good points, but is rather a disappointment...