Whatever may be the exact circumstances. in which the dispute between the Paramount Film Company andthe Chinese authorities has arisen, it seems desirable that the Government should seriously consider the regulations _governing its censorship. Primarily the functions of censorship, as understood in other countries are to cover the United question of the suitability of such and such a film for presentation the country under where auspices the censors work. Unless the still contradictory information on the Paramount case is wildly at fault, would seem that some attempt has been made to endow the censors with Powers trenching heavily on the diplomatic obligations of the Government. It may be perfectly proper for the Chinese Government to object to certain individual film and an its presentation here; the principle Is ex-fended to unwarrantable proportions when, because of the defects of a flm—from the point of view of China <the whole output of a company without further ado is condemned and, moreover, the attempt is made to coerce that company into withholding its films from presentation outside the jurisdiction of the Chinese Government. Hollywood is so much! alive to the importance of studying the susceptibilities of other nations that it is unthinkable that reasonable consideration to reasonable representations from China is not readily given, The arbitrary action taken against the Paramount Company, Judging from the data available, deserves prompt and careful review by the responsible Minister at Nanking.
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