The Academy Theaters firm, which operates two motion picture houses here, announced today a ban on all Soviet films because of “anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union and its East European satellite allies.” The company also announced cancellation of arrangements for a Soviet film festival to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution because it would have served as “a cover and smoke screen for the unspeakable injustice and defamation being perpetrated against Jews throughout the world by the Soviets and their auxiliaries.
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