"Nonru-Cuiva Dany News"
Si—I hope my letter of the 12th instant relative to the Impending film ban will not be taken as being the lullerances of the Paramount Films of China with which T was never connected in any capacity. Several years ago'I was associated with one of the competitors of the Paramount Films but I have"since left the films dise tribution game and. am therefore speaking a3 a third party, disinterested but conversant with the matter, I'am glad to see in. your yesterday's issue that negotiation is being carried on' and that the pro-Posed ban. is being withheld and that {ts imposition may never be made.
consider the intended ban as un-ust been use it is not authorized by any existing regulations. I understand that a set of new regulations Which provide-for such exigencies Is being drafted by the censors. Pending the promulgation of such regula-tons by the Chinese Government. the exclusion from China of the produc tions of any producer disobedient. 10 the censors should not be made nor should such regulations be applicable to pictures which were made prior to, the enactment of relative regulations since -no Jaw is retrogressive In its application, Tu the event of the Imposition of aban on. the Paramount Pie-ures, I think the said firm has a good ese and should take the matier to the Administrative Court and should apply for Injunction against. the execution of the order pending's ded. sion "being handed. down by said Court, This isnot however 2 prob-Jem of the Paramount Films of China, alone, It is the common problem of all "importers of foreign—firns, Europeans and "Americans alike These should act jointly in having the resent case argued before the appropriate courts. by competent legal Dractitioners., No apparent solidarity far among the importers is to be regretted.
indeed a debatable question whether the Chinese censors: should attempt to exercise censorship over the exhibition of pictures outside of China, The deletion of seenes deemed Prejudicial to Chinese prestige the screens abroad is a matter for the Foreiga Office to deal with through Giplomatic means and docs not seem lie within the province of the Chinese mot loh picture censors whose duly is exclusively: to censor pictures before their exhibition in the theatre Im China. The censors have no altera native and must censor any. picture that is submitted for.censorshlp, provided all requirements of the existing Fegulations are complied with, The present threatened bani is opposed because. tt constitutes an unthorized. and illegal disruption of
due: process..of Jaw, If" such, en-Fights of an, individual without crouchment on constitutional right by fany"department of our, Government unopposed it would soon lead autocratic bureaucracy' which Is incompatible with. the cardinal prin iples of democratic government such
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