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Paul W. Ward, Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, Sept. 10, 1941.

Picture Probe

      If Isolationist Senators Looking For „War Propaganda

In The Movies“ Carry Their Probe To Hollywood

      STUDIO

      Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator

      Senator NYE:

      WHY DIDN‘T YOU SHOW HITLER

IN A LOVABLE MOOD?

(...) Cartoon, Sun, Baltimore, Maryland,  Sept. 10, 1941

„He felt it inculcated ,hatred and detestation‘“

Editorial content. „FILM INQUIRY OPENED

      WITH ATTACK BY NYE

      North Dakotan And Willkie Share

      Limelight At Hearing“ (...)

      „By PAUL W. WARD

     (Washington Bureau of The Sun)“ (...)

      „Unable To Recall

      The hearing ended with Senator McFarland questioning

Senator Nye about eight movies he had named

as propaganda pictures and trying to get the witness to say

what he found objectionable in them.

      Senator Nye pleaded inability to answer such questions

on the ground that it is his ,weakness‘ that he cannot

recall the morning after seeing a film what its title was or any

of its details.“ (...)

      „Cites Chaplin Film

      The only picture cited by Senator Nye as a propaganda

film that he was certain of having seen was Charlie Chaplin‘s last production, The Great Dictator.

      Asked by Senator McFarland what he saw ,objectionable‘

in that film, the North Dakotan said it was produced

by ,a great artist,‘ but one who was ,not a native‘ and that

he felt it inculcated ,hatred and detestation.‘“

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