The Archive · 1940

At Least 20 Hollywood Films Are Moral

Japanese Censors Pick Out Films for Showing

Tokyo, Oct. 1.

Japanese censorship authorities have picked over and culled the Spring and summer crop of Holly-'Wood motion picture productions and ave found at least 20 full-length feature pictures "of good moral char-according to the "Chugai o Shimpo."

Accordingly, the paper stated, permits have been issued by the Home Office to eight motion picture companies for the importation of approximately a score of their best releases this year, New American pictures which will appear on Tokyo's screens shortly will include the following according the "Chugai Shogyo":

Paramount's "Geronimo;" Twentieth Century Fox's "Little Old New Universal's Warner Brothers "Sea Hawk."—Domei.

Arabic Press Sees Frantic Reich Search for Allies Lisbon, Oct. 1.

The Italo-German-Japanese pact 1s interpreted as directed primarily against America and secondarily against Russia, in spite of the cause expressly stating the contrary, in an editorial in the Lisbon Government organ, "Diane de Manha," on September 29. The despatch of troops to Finland is interpreted as a menace to the Soviet.

"With the collaboratiogs@et Japan secured, Germany prepares to face the problem of the Baltic. Stalin will observe that the Soviet advance to the west must come to an end," states the paper.

"The Arabic press fends to regard the new Axis pact as proof of Hitler's frantic search for new allies. Realising the failure of the attack on Britain, he is striving to redress the balance by this effort to tie America's hands with regard to Europe by a major preoccupation in the Pacific.

"The Arabic papers ask how can Hitler and Mussolini help Japan? and seme regard the pact as principally Gesigned to bolster German and Iti ian propaganda."—Reuter, Japanese Involved in

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