A De Gaullist Senator today criticized the French Government for failing to ban a showing of the Nazi-made film “Jew Suess” until after a number of protests had been made. Sen. Jacques Debu-Bridel was joined in his attack on the government by a Communist Senator and one from the Catholic M.R.P.
Speaking in the Council of the Republic–the French Senate–Sen. Debu-Bridel charged that the scheduled showing of the film to a private cinema club in the Latin Q##arter was “part of a series of racist manifestations and attempts to whitewash collaborators and to attack the Resistance Movement.” He pointed out that official government bodies were responsible for the situation since prints of the film in France have been seized by the government and are considered the property of the Treasury.
Eugene Thomas, Undersecretary of the Ministry of the Irterior, made what he termed a “technical” reply to the charges, stressing that the cinema club was private and that the film had been shown before another such dlub without occasioning any protests or demonstrations which prompted the police ban on the Latin Quarter club.
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