FRENCH PLAY ABOUT HITLER

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21792, 26 May 1936, Page 11

FRENCH PLAY ABOUT HITLER

♦ GERMAN PROTESTS

A HAN IMPOSED (Received May 25, 10.30 a.m.) [ PARIS, May 24. As a sequel to protests from the j German Embassy the Mhrster fori the Interior has banned a flay entitled “Hitler,” in which (he author.! M. Paul Caillet, asserts that his in- j tention was to show Herr Hitler that Frenchmen were not afra.d of him. The play traces Herr Hitler s nse, Love interest is provided by HenHitler’s reputed fiancee, who is represented as a non-Ayran, and who deserts him after a scene in which Herr Hitler shorts Captain Rcehm during a “purge.” M. Caillet introduces an ideal! Ed Fie :chman who attempts to persuade Herr Hitler to maintain peace, despite General Goering urging that “he ought to have a nice little war with France.” The curtain falls when the Frenchman cries; “You want war and you are going to have it, but you’ll lose! Any Frenchman can fight half a dozen Germans,” Herr Hitler then angrily telephones ordering the reoccupation of the Rhineland. The German Embassy resented an interview between Herr Hitler and President von Hlndenburg in the play, in which Herr Hitler, in demanding the Chancellorship, says; “God entrusted me with the mission [to restore Germany.” i President von Hindenburg re- | torts; “You have excellent conj nexions.”