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FILMS DEADLOCK ENDED

Britain And Hollywood Come To An Agreement EE THEATRE

Punitive Tax To

Be Withdrawn

London, Mar. 11.

Britain and Hollywood today ended their seven- months deadlock over the import of American films, Mr. Harold Wilson, President of the Board of Trađe, announced in the House of Commons today, when he reported that an agreement had been reached with the Motion Pictures Association of America providing that:

The 75 per cent ad valorem tax imposed on Ameri- can films last August to save dollars will be withdrawn as soon as the necessary order can be made.

Normal import of American films will be resumed as soon ns possible.

Suicide In

Prison Cell.

Loolon, Mar. 11.

Swiss Radio mid tonight that the former Secretary General of the Czechoslo- vak National Socialist Party, M. Josef Hered, had com- mitted suicide in his prison well.

"This was officially re- ported in Prague tonight, the Radio added.Heuter.

dollars will be Vatican

Fraud

Allegations

Gustav Amused By

Rumours

Stockholm, Mar. 11. Stockholm

today

the best his

mourned 89 - year - old |King Gustav of Sweden was -who

at moment in the of health on way to the South of France on a holiday trip. King Gustav arrived in Parts by train at 3,50 p.m. GMT. Smiling and looking remarkably

Mt.

Flogs were lowered to half mast

This amount would cover not only the carnings of new, Am erican Alm, but also those of The tax was imposed under auch films already in Britain. Sir Stafford Cripps "super Additional remittances In

in many official and privata Austerity" dollar saving pro-dollara of sums equivalent to

buildings and the Swedish Rodlo gramme. The Americana re-the earnings of British films

Rome, Mar. 11.

changed its home service pro- plied with banning the export shown in the United States

gramme to one of solemn music, "Osservatore Romano" Bil-

The gloom was lifted when the would be permitted; Mr. Wilson nounced on Thursday night evening newspaper. Aftonbladet. declared.

that the resignation of reported from the Belgian border The agreement provides for Monsignor Giulio Guidetti from slalich that the King Whe permitted sterling use of the the office of administration of amused by the rumours and found revenues of American Alma

them "rather exaggerated." Holy See Properties "wan which are in excess of the provoked by his involvement in don, Paris, Berlin, Brussels

The rumours had swept Lon- amounts that may be remitted some of the financial operations Copenhagen as well, as the Swe across the exchanges, Mr. Wil of Edoardo Prettner," unfrock-dish

capital, son added.

ed Monsignor now in Italian police hands.

of new films to Britain.

Under the new agreement, $17 million (£1,250,000) a year has been fixed for the remit tance during the first two years of the earnings in Britain from the showing of American Bima,

Mr. Wilson said,

Unification

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These operations, the an-

Residual Balances These permitted uses would be under the supervision of a: Joint control committee com-nouncement said "concerned posed of representatives of the sums belonging to Alessandro British Government and the Rossini," Italian industrialist American film industry.

Finally, Mr. Wilson said, the agreement contemplated that

Rossini, after writing to Pope Plus on Jan. 20, listing con- signments of nome 400 million

clown in a controversy" over the zole any realdual balances, not even-lire, to the Properties Offico, tually disposed of by the means he had already described, would has filed charges

of each service,

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vrged President Truman to act immediately to correct what he called a dan- gerous situation.

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He said the controversy revolves chiefly around the question of whe ther the Air Force is to be alely responsible for strategic bombing or whether the Navy should have part Hinshaw said he could not be cellent and are the strength of national

_of_as_some_claim, all of that-mission.-

against be cleared by an agreed trans- Guidetti with the Italian police. action not involving any strain Guidetti has been placed un- on the foreign exchange posi-der house arrest pending in- tion of Britain or creating a vestigation of his honouring a further claim on sterling.

document falsified by Prettner.

Under the Lateran treaties Italian police. will not be able arrent Guidetti while he wears the cloth.

Such transactions might take! the form of charitable or pub- He uses, including the encour-to agement of arts and science.

It was intended that the main structure of the agree. ment should last four years, with a provision for a review at the end of the first two.

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