A PROTEST

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 71, 24 March 1926, Page 5

A PROTEST

■'.' ~ ♦ " (To the Editor.) Sir,— May I Voice an emphatic protest against the decidedly anti-British character of certain American produced fllins screened in this country from time to time. At the present moment there is being screened an American film wherein a man garbed in the King's uniform of the British Staff Corps is shown acting in a disgraceful manner to women. There are a number of British officers in the same scene and are seen witnessing the episode without taking any action to protect the molested women, which is inconceivable to any Britisher. Had one of these officers jumped up and knocked the beast down there may have been some justification for the scene. The producer apparently dubs them all alike. The thing is outrageous, and should never have been passed by the censor. I have also in mind a film I saw in Wellington recently showing a member of the Indian Intelligence branch of the I.C.S. debasing an American woman by putting her into a house of ill-fame in the lowest native quarters of Shanghai. Then, again, I have seen American pictures wherein high officials of the British Consulate staff have beer shown in a most unsatisfactory light. I am one who believes in the high i.ieals of the English-speak-ing/Union. Nevertheless I feel that the American producers' efforts to belittle. British people and their customs should be efernly resented by tho Government, the Press, and the. people. What is the censor doing about it? — I am, etc., F. SIMPSON. . 21st March. '