Applands Censorship Stand

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

I heartily concur with CRIMSON editor Leiper, also strenuously objecting that, in connection with "Terment," "the Roman Catholic group has again censored films for non-Catholics as well."

When movies are censored, that is bearable: when they are excluded it ceases to be so. We often do not even hear of these movies. One of which we did hear was "Oliver Twist," a powerful and sensitive work of cinematic art. This was banned on the basis of vigorous protests by a Jewish group. That these protests were genuine and deep-felt was shown by the riots which this same movie evoked in Germany among the Jewish DP's.

The need is strong for a pressure group representing the general non-violent, non-"anti-anti" public, but particularly the large bourgeois-intellectual group in Boston who see the foreign films. The formation of such a group to agitate heatedly against banning through the influence of any group--Catholic, Jewish, or Watch and Ward Society--would best he organized through the university and college populations of the Boston area. But however it be done, it is the crying need of the day. Paul W. Friedrich '49