An official of the Catholic war Veterans post in nearby Red Bank, New Jersey, this week-end withdrew protests against the showing of a film produced by the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation League and in effect apologized for “erroneously” stating that the film was “pink.”
Leslie C. McBride, head of a special committee, had judged the film, “The High Wall, ” as “pink” on the basis of reports from the Anti-Communist League of New Jersey. The post’s attack on the picture resulted in its withdrawal from a school parent-teacher program.
Earlier, Nelson F. Stamler, chairman of the New Jersey advisory board of the Anti-Defamation League, had charged that the veterans’ post was guilty of an “act of hysteria and know-nothingness beyond belief.” Mr. Stamler had noted that the film, which tells the story of prejudices suffered by a Polish Catholic family, had been shown extensively by Catholic youth groups and parochial schools and over television programs.
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