FRENCH PLAY BANNED
RESULT OF GERMAN PROTEST (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) PARIS, 24th May. As a sequel to protests from the German Embassy, the Minister of the Interior banned the play entitled “Hitler,” in which the author Paul Caillet asserts the 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 Hitler’s reputed fiance, who is represented as non-Aryan and deserts him after a scene in which Hitler shoots Captain Ernst Boehm during the purge. Caillet introduces an idealised Frenchmen 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 will lose. Any Frenchman can fight half a dozen Germans,” whereupon Herr Hitler angrily telephones ordering the reoccupation of the Rhineland. The German Embassy resented the Hitler-Hindenburg interview in the play, in which Herr Hitler, demanding chancellorship, says: “God entrusted me with the mission to restore Germany.”
Hindenburg retorts: “You have excellent connections.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 26 May 1936, Page 2
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