Jews will not be able to venture out into the streets to go to synagogue on Saturday if the performance of Remarque’s “All Quiet” talkie is not transferred from the Jewish quarter, says an appeal which has been made to the authorities, asking them to arrange to have the film played in another part of the city.
The authorities are still undecided what to do with the film, whether the provisional prohibition is to be made permanent or whether it should be lifted, as Herr Seitz, the Socialist Mayor and Governor of Vienna, Insists. Herr Seitz, it is said, takes the view that if the film is prohibited because of the terrorism of a few thousand demonstrators the Austrian Government will have lost prestige in the eyes of the world, since it will have shown itself too weak to keep order in its own house.
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