PLAY, “HITLER,” BARRED

Northern Advocate, 25 May 1936, Page 5

PLAY, “HITLER,” BARRED

GERMAN PROTEST AGAINST FRENCH PRESENTATION [United Press Assoclation.-By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright.l (Received 1.30 p.m.) PARIS, May 24. As a sequel to a protest from the German Embassy, the Minister of the Interior banned a play entitled “Hitler,” in which the author, Paul Caillet, asserts that his intention was to show Herr Hitler that Frenchmen were not afraid of him. The play traces Herr Hitler’s rise.

Love interest is provided by Herr Hitler’s reputed fiancee, who is represented as being a nonAryan. She deserts him after a scene in which Herr Hitler shoots his. former propaganda chief, Herr von Roehm, during his great purge of July 30, 1934,

M. Caillet introduces into his play an idealised Frenchman, who attempts to persuade Herr Hitler to maintain peace, despite General Goering’s urging that “we ought to have a nice little war with France.” The curtain falls when the Frenchman cries: “You want war. You are going to nave it, but you'll lose. Any Frenchman can fight half a dozen Germans” —whereupon Herr Hitler angrily telephones, ordering the reoccupation of the Rhineland. The German Embassy resented a Hitler-Hindenburg interview in the play, in which Herr Hitler, demand' ing the Chancellorship, says: “God has entrusted me with a mission to restore Germany.” President von Hindenburg retorts: “You have excellent connections.”