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FILM CENSORED Sweden, which enjoyi an international reputation for its liberal
views on sex and free expression of idea, is not as liberal as regards the depiction of
motion picture violence. Shown are two scenes from popular films which were cut by
Swedish censorship board. At top, drawn out fist fight in "Cape Fear" which starred
Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum, and at bottom, gladiator fight to the death (Kirk
Douglas and Woody Strode) from "Spartacus." UPI Telephoto
Liberal Sweden Censors Pictures
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (UPD
Swedon, which enjoys en inter
rational reputation for its liber
al views on sex and Iree expres
sion of ideas, has one of the
world's more aggressive motion
picture censorship boards.
It may surprise American
moviegoers to learn that the ma
jority of the films banned or cut
by the Swedish censors were
U.S.-madc. The reason is that
the tiling the Swedes find most
objectionable is violence.
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more liberal than the state
boards of censors in the United
States when it comes to passing
sex scenes in motion pictures,"
6aid Erik Skolund, director of
the Swedish Film Censorship
Board. "Public notions of decen
cy and morals have changed dur
ing the past few decades and we
at the board of censors try to
keep in line with the develop
ments around us.
"That doesn't mean, however,
that anything goes in Sweden.
We are definiiely turning thumbs
down on movies whore the more
intimate sequences touch or pass
the line of pure pornography."
Severely Cut
Skolund said he believes many
American and Latin American
films have been "real orgies in
violence and sadism" and there
fore were banned or severely
cut.
"We lake a very dim view of
excessive violence or brutality in
motion pictures. Young people
are too easily influenced by what
they see on the screen and we
don't want to encourage that sort
of behavior among them."
During 1962, Skoland said, 24
films were forbidden in Sweden
Thirteen of them were American
gangster or horror films. Numer
ous other U.S. productions yield
ed considerable foolagc to the
censors' shears.
Skolund said recent U.S. films
to be severely cut included:
Spartacus rpm)pH hv
censors as most profuse in vi
cious cruelties.
"Cape Fear" Several vio
lent sequences were clipped,
among them a long drawn out
fist-fight.
'Premature Burial" A horror
film showing open coffins, blood
stained corpses and "a bestial
iron-bar murder scene."
Made For Export
One recent American film was I
banned as beinc "unusn-illv
sleejy pornography" but Skolund
said he believed it was made es
pecially for the export market
and was never shown to U.S. au
diences.
In addition to banning or cut
ting motion pictures, the Swed
ish Film Censorship Board places
them in one of three categories
one lor persons 15 or older;
one for children in the U-15 year
age bracket, and one which may
bo seen by all children.
The foremost consideration In
the minds of Swedish film cen
ser: iz the effect - film 72"
have on its audience. There are
no taboo subjects and no idea
censorship. The criteria are "the
manner in which the events are
pictured and the context in which
they are presented," Skolund
said.
Sweden's chief censor said the
fact that the majority of the
films cut were American does
not mean that they were (lie
worst; only that U.S. production
is so much greater than other
countries.
Hungarian
Schools
Overflow
BUDAPEST (UPI I - Hungary's
second, third and fourth grade
elementary grades are overflow
ing and all because of the na
tion's former woman minister of
health.
If you visit a Hungarian ele-
mentary school, you notice that
these grades are packed. While
the other grades are divided into
three classes at most, the eight
to 10-year olds require four and
five to accommodate them all.
The government already has its
problems. There aren't enough
shoes or clothes or "gym" suits
in these sizes, and what will hap
pen when they reach the univer
sities?
These children are referred to
as the "Ratko children." Anna
Ratko was the Minister of Health
from 1950-1954.
She decided that, if nothing else,
she would present the state with
a high birth rate during her re
gime.
In 1952 she lowered the boom
in the form of an unshakable
law: abortionists lose their doc
tor's practice and go to jail,
ilowlr of Protest
There were howls of pretest
but all in vain. Women cried,
men cursed. The jails filled with
doctors and their diplomas were
taken away from them while the
maternity wards became fuller
and fuller.
Finally there was no more room
in the hospitals. Maternity cases
lined the corridors.
There weren't enough kinder
gartens or children's nurses.
It was obvious that these "con
ditions" couldn't go on.
In 1956 the new abortion laws
were passed which, in effect, say
that every woman has the right
to limit the size of her family.
Any woman who wants to have
an abortion must register with the
district commission. She also reg
isters her reasons why she cannot
or does not want to raise a child.
For instance she may be ill.
there may be a too small apart
ment, she is already the mother
of several children, her husband
drinks or she is unmarried.
Has Final Word
The commission tries to talk the
woman into having her child, and
can give her permission, or re
ject it.
If given permission, she goes
to the hospital for three days,
pays 250 forint (about $101 and
is freed of her "burden".
"Illegal" abortions by private
doctors are punishable by fines
but since the new abortion law,
cheap. It costs between 400 and
700 forint (16-$28).
The official table of lhre b!rth
in Hungary clearly shows the re
sults of Anna Ratko's regime.
The births in the post-war years
averaged between 180.000 and
190,000 yearly up to 1952. The
years 1953 55 show birth rates of
over 200,000. In 954, it reached
an all-time high of 222.347.
Since 1956 the births have
declined and in 1962 a lo w of
129,957 was reached.
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NO LAMB' Author Edward A. Lamb, right, of Toledo,
Ohio, autographs a copy of his book, "No Lamb For
Slaughter," for Sen. Estes Kefauver.
UPI Telephoto
Lawyer Fights Way Back
To Become Millionaire
WALLDORF, Germany (UPI)-'
This German hamlet and Astoria
Ore., join together this month in
celebrating the 200th birthday of
a butcher's son who founded an
empire in the new world that still
stands.
Johann Jakob Astor was born
in Walldorf, July 17. 1763, the son
of a poor butcher, according to
the village chronicle.
But young Astor emigrated to
North America and made a for
tune. He also founed Astoria.
His grandson, William, fur
thered the family empire by
founding the famous Waldorf As
toria Hotel in New York in 1866.
William henceforth called himself
Waldorf-Astoria, but no one knows
why he dropped the second "1"
in Walldorf.
The highlight of Astor Week in
Walldorf July 17-23 is the estab
lishment of a sister-town relation
ship with the Oregon city. The
mayor of Astoria is expected to
attend the festivities.
Nnbbele." as butcher's son
By GKRALD S. SNYDER
United Press International
NEW YORK (UPI) During a
sensational Washington trial in
the mid-1950's, a woman with
thick glasses and short-cropped
gray hair told of a fellow "com
rade" who she claimed once fa
vored the overthrow of the United
States government.
The woman also told of a "liai
son" with the man in a Colum
bus. Ohio, hotel that was "my
first infidelity and led to my di
vorce.
This was the star witness in a
case that attracted national atten
tion a license renewal hearing
on charges made by the Feder
al Communications Commission
(FCC) that the man had been a
member of groups on the attor
ney general's list of subversive
organizations.
Tried And Convicted
The woman, Marie Natvig, was
later tried and convicted of per
jury her whole story was ruled
concocted and the central charac
ter in the episode, Edward (Ted)
Lamb, was exonerated, his accus
ers discredited, and his radio and
television licenses renewed.
Now. Ted Lamb, 61, a wealthy
Toledo lawyer-industrialist reput-l
ed to have a fortune valued at
$50 million, has written an auto
biography, "No Lamb For
Slaughter" (Harcourt, Brace &!
World Inc.) in which he tells ol
harassment, persecution and loss
of income because of the weird
case.
"I fought back that others will
resist this type of thing," Lamb
said in an interview. "1 can't say!
I entirely dislike a fight.
The FCC and Lamb first tan
gled in 1954 after Lamb applied
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television station in Erie, Pa. The
FCC said questions about his
'MCEtions to own ana operate
a broadcast station had been
raised by his book, "The Planned
Economy in Soviet Russia."
Lamb filed an answer which said
he was "not now, and never had
been a member of the Commu
nist party."
A second issue arose during a
court suit filed by Lamb seeking
to enjoin the commission from
holding hearings in the case. He
charged at least three investiga
tors had induced persons to claim
falsely he had been a member of
the Communist party and that
the investigators had offered at
least one person a bribe in thisi
connection.
On June 13, 1957, more than
three years after the case began.
the commission granted his peti
tion for a license renewal, sayingl
there was not enough evidence to
indicate that he had knnwinelv
been a member of any Commu
nist front organization.
They wanted to smear and
run, Lamb said. But I chose
to defend my name and fight
back. "I've spent a lifetime in
defending the underdog plenty
of people are railroaded to jail
on pretty flimsy things. The fact
that I had the right to defend
myself that's something that
the Communists can't give."
OCEAN RADIOACTIVITY
Water in the North Atlantic and
North Pacific Oceans now is some
10 times more radioactive than a
few years ago. but this increase
has not yet aliected either ocean
south of the Equator.
"OCHUS BOCHL'S"
Oddly enough, there once was
a magician in Scandinavian
mythology by the name of Ochus
Bochus and "hocus pocus" is just
variation of his name.
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German Town, Astoria Celebrate
Johann Astor was known to his
friends, left Walldorf at the age
of 18 and joined his older brother
in London. Then, in 1784, he left
for the new, world and got a job
as apprentice with a New York
fur dealer.
Within a yeai he had started
his own firm, buying furs in the
Hudson River hunting grounds
and Canada, and selling them in
London at a good profit. In 1810
he sent an expedition to the West
Coast and founded Astoria at the
mouth of the Columbia River.
One reason for the link with As
toria is a attempt to revive the
relationship. Walldorf Mayor Wil-
helm Willinger said, "but we doi
not expect a donation from the
rich uncles in America.
Twenty families named Astor
now live in Walldorf, which
sports an Astor Garden, an Astor
Monument, the Cafe Astoria, and
the Astor House, a home for old
people built with a $50,000 dona
tion from Johann Astor.
goods store in Walldorf, Hermann
Astor is an upholsterer. Dr. Karl
Astor is the village physician, and
there is an Astor on the Astoria
Walldorf soccer team.
A picture of Astoria, Ore., dec
orates the dining room of the tiny
Walldorf hotel, and another room
contains a replica of a cabin in
Johann Aster's flagship Tonquin
that sailed past Cape Horn in
1810.
Enthusiastic Walldorfers also
changed the name of their main
road from "Nusslocher Strasse"
to Johann Jakob Astor Strasse,"
and put up huge posters at the
outskirts of the village advertis
ing the birthday party.
NOBEL PRIZE
The Nobel Prize for literature
in 1962, for the sixth time, went
to a United States writier. The
award, this time, went to John
Steinbeck, according to the Bri-
Martin Astor runs a leal herltannica Book of the Year.
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