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Una Merkel and W. C. Fields in " The Bank Detective.” Below: Mary Marlin (under the bed). Chester Clute, Fred Allen. Vcnee Teasdale and Jock Benny in “ Love Thy Neighbour.’ Wilfred Lawson as Pastor Hall, and Sey- mour Hicks in Pastor Hall” the film based on the story of Pastor Niemoller. Raymond Massey (right) and Eric Postman in ” 49th Parallel.” Eric Portman is a U-boat officer who attempts to escape from Canada to the United States but is out- manoeuvred by Raymond Massey. W/’hen we think of the heroism of the Fighting Services, the Mercantile Marine, the Fire fighters, the A.R.P., the many Corps of Women’s Auxiliary Services, Doctors, Nurses and staffs of Hospitals, and, above all, the heroism and spirit of self-sacrifice shown by the women and children of cities, towns and hamlets which have been bombed incessantly by the Nazi murderers, it may sound not only presumptuous but downright swank to suggest that the films have played any really important part in the World War. But I have no hesitation in saying that the screen has played a very important part. I think we may divide, roughly, the part the films have played into showing us, firstly, what Nazism really means and what we are fighting against, and, secondly, how we are fighting the greatest menace to Civilisation since Democracy was established as the keystone of the arch of Civilisation. Democracy is easily explained. The great Lincoln. President of the first really United States of America, described it as Govern- ment of the People, by the People, for the People. The emblem of Republican France was Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. In England, and later in the British Empire, the meaning was Freedom of speech and action, so long as it did not interfere with the Freedom of others. All these definitions of Democracy are practically the same, and in the Nazi regime there is not one single principle of this Freedom that is allowed to the individual. The German of today is not the willing servant of the State, he is the slave of the State. And this applies to Italy under Mussolini’s Dictatorship. Films Founded on Facts 'T’his abolition of individual Liberty has 1 been clearly and truthfully shown in many films. In “ Pastor Hall ” we saw how Nazidom relentlessly crushed the right of men and women to worship God according to their own Belief and Conscience. The strength of “ Pastor Hall ” was that it was Facts transferred to the film. In Nazi Germany there was a real Pastor Hall, whose name was Pastor Niemoller. The story of this film moved this country and America because it is one of the principles of Democ- racy that there should be Freedom of Religion. Pastor Hall was taken from his pulpit because he preached the Religion of Christ, which the Gestapo decided was against the Law laid down by Adolf Hitler. _ _ . In “ Freedom Radio,” a fine British production with Clive Brook as the star, we saw a clergyman dragged from his pulpit and his congregation hustled out by the brutal Gestapo as though they were criminals. This led to a famous medical specialist (the role played by Clive Brook) starting a secret radio to tell not only Germany, hut the world, the truth about Nazism. There is grim drama in this film, for the specialist’s wife is an ardent Nazi at HIM fkf *1(5 /«rA 2