FRENCH PLAY BANNED

Evening Star, Issue 22347, 25 May 1936, Page 8

FRENCH PLAY BANNED

HITLER REPRESENTED IN LEADING ROLE PROTESTS FROM CERMAN EMBASSY Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, May 24. (Received May 25, at 9.40 a.m.) As a sequel to protests from the German Embassy, the Minister for the Interior has banned a play entitled ‘ Hitler,’ in which the author, M. Paul Caillet, asserts the intention was to show Hitler that Frenchmen were not afraid of him. The play traces Herr Hitler’s rise. The love interest is provided by Herr iHtler’s reputed fiancee, who is represented as a non-Ayran. She deserts him after a scene in which Herr Hitler shoots Herr Roehm during the Nazi purge. M. Caillet introduces an idealised Frenchman who attempts to persuade Herr Hitler to maintain peace despite General Goering’s urging that “he ought to have a nice little war with France.” The curtain falls when the Frenchman cries: “ You want war—you are going to have it; but you’ll lose. Any Frenchman can fight half a dozen Germans.” Whereupon Herr Hitler angrily telephones ordering reoccupation of the Rhineland.

Th© German Embassy resented a Hitler-Hindenburg interview in the play in which Herr Hitler is demanding the Chancellorship. He says: “ God entrusted me with a mission to restore Germany.” Hindenburg retorts; “ You have excellent connections.”-