OBSCENE LITERATURE
PUBLICATION IN ENGLAND DEPUTATION TO HOME SECRETARY (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) London, March 5. The Public Morality Council, which included members of the Churches and the Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A., the Salvation Army, and teachers, etc., numbering a hundred, formed a deputation to Sir W. Joynson-Hicks, the HomeSecretary, to-day regarding immoral books and plays. The Home Secretary, in a long address, said: "Not merely can the Magistrates order the destruction of obscene matter and books, but the publishers personally are liable to be fined. That Is our first line of defence against the overwhelming attack in indecent literature which is at present being launched. When people refer to the Home Secretary’s action in censoring books, they little realise that if he abrogated his powers, England would be flooded with filth from the Continent.” Sir William indicated that he was not inclined to alter the existing laws or impose a censorship.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 138, 7 March 1929, Page 11
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