Nowadays, when diplomats write euphemistic notes to whitewash international incidents, the newsreel camera is apt to confound them with the realities before the whole public —at least in the maligned democracies, writes A. H. Leviero to the New York "Times."
Aroused b; the bombing of the Panay ana compelled to quickly crystallize the nation's foreign policy under pressure of disputed incidents of the undeclared wa" in the Bast, President Roosevelt asked the motion picture industry to shew. the public exactly what happened to the little American gunboat on the Yangtze The Bana had already been closed w h expressions of regret and amity on one side and a tempered warning that it must not happen again on the other. But the President felt he had to justify the firm course taken by himself and Secretary Hull in dealing with Japan. So the public has been able to see, uncensored and uncut, all that motion picture camera men were able to "shoot" of a historic occurrence in the turmoil of deadly, aerial bombing.
In a small projection room of its at Fort Lee, New Jersey, 1 ea by State troopers, al Newsreel's staff worked feverishly the night the film arrived to prepare the Panay feature showed the next day for judgment by the American public.
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