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...British Ambassador to France, has no governmental standing but, as salaried ($10,000) president of the Board of Film Censors, a creation of the British film industry, he takes public responsibility for that organization's acts. Actual work he leaves mostly to a professional Cato, one J. Brooke Wilkinson, who works on the principle that any footage controversial enough to ruffle the customary calm of a cinema audience should be deleted...
...Censor Wilkinson has had his troubles with the March of Time from its inception. Overruling the March of Time's claim that, as journalism in celluloid, it must be as free to handle controversial news as the Press, Watchdog Wilkinson has on various occasions removed from the British March of Time shots of German Nazis persecuting Jews, members of the French People's Front demonstrating against the Fascist Croix...
Incident arose from an utterly inconsequential resolution by Ellen C. Wilkinson, author of Why War?, calling on the Government to pay women the same salaries as men in the lower grades of the Civil Service. In the course of the desultory debate, M. P.'s indebted to the women's vote and reluctant to sponsor openly the Government's thesis that British women in the Civil Service are already better paid than other British women, quietly sneaked out of the House. The alert leader of the Labor Opposition, Major Clement R. Attlee, did a little quick counting...
...just passed two conflicting votes and that it is the first of April." Given time to think it over, Prime Minister Baldwin reflected that even a freak defeat of his Government might look bad with European politics in their present state. Turning earnest next day, he announced that Miss Wilkinson's resolution would be redebated, voted on this week by a full House, the division to be counted as a vote of confidence or lack of confidence in the Government's foreign policy. This week a packed House gravely debated the resolution again, voting it down...
...Observers last week thought Lord Tyrrell as a censor would be tolerant of social and sexual themes, intolerant of political themes. Actually he will look at comparatively few pictures. The chief work of censorship will be carried on as usual by the Board's elderly secretary, J. Brooke Wilkinson...