The German Embassy prepared today to protest to the State Department against the showing of Clare Boothe’s new play, “Margin for Error,” now at the National Theater.
The production “is a serious reflection on the German foreign service,” declared Mr. Herbert von Strempel, First Secretary of the German Embassy.
The State Department contemplates taking no action against the play. Once again as it has done on several occasions–the Department is expected to point out to the Embassy that the American principle of free speech makes such censorship impossible.
The play, which bristles with anti-Nazi thrusts, has its locale in the German consulate in New York, and a Jewish policeman named Finkelstein is portrayed in the leading role.
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