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were pictured at the height of their power, Goering and the others would look across at each other and smile and tap their feet to the old familiar marches. But the Paris edition of the Herald-Tribune next day hailed the film as one of the highlights of the trial up to that point and it was gen¬ erally acknowledged in the courtroom that not even the most damaging documentary evidence had so succeeded in dramatizing and crystallizing the case of the civilized world against international gangsterism.
At Nuremberg, an important step has been taken in the establish¬ ment of international law and the securing of permanent peace. Filmworkers can be proud that, thanks to the foresight and imagination of Justice Jackson and OSS’ young General Counsel Jim Donovan, the power of motion pictures was employed for the first time in any major trial. Motion pictures had gone to war. Now they were helping to win the peace.
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AMERICAN MERCURY SCRIPTS: CORRECTION
In our May issue, THE SCREEN WRITER printed a statement that “the editors of The American Mercury have sold their back files to the Scribner Book Store, 597 Fifth Avenue, New York, which is offering in its manuscript catalogue various scripts that were published in this magazine not only recently, but under the editorship of Mencken, Angoff, Palmer, etc.”
A further check reveals that, in the words of the Scribner Book Store, “the entire transaction took place without the knowledge of any person presently connected with The American Mercury.” A letter from Lawrence E. Spivak, editor and publisher of The American Mercury, says that there has been no sale of manuscripts published since 1939 when he bought control of the magazine. He states that the policy of the magazine since the days of Mencken has been to return all manuscripts to authors on request, or to destroy them after one year. That policy still prevails.
We regret that an erroneous impression was given, and hope that it has caused the editors of The American Mercury no embarrassment.
Writers who may have pre-1939 Mercury scripts listed in the Scribner catalogue should get in touch with that book store, if they wish to have them withdrawn from sale. Those dealing with the present editors of The Mercury may be assured of proper disposal of their scripts, and need have no fear of their falling into the hands of manuscript dealers.
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