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these two were the worst according to him. I say it in this Council consciously and deliberately that that was what he said to me. I asked him in the clearest possible language: "I want the two or three worst films meaning the films that you consider were most worthy to be banned." He gave me first of all two names, "The Coldest Winter in Peking" and "If I were for Real,' in that very order. And then he said: "Let me now just check from the list of films that we have banned over the years." And he
added a third, "Twilight in Geneva." But I was unable to get that and even if I had got it, I think to show you three films in one 11 night would be too much for any Councillor to swallow, apart from
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indicate to me in the clearest possible language that these three 15 films were in his view the worst. It would be odd indeed, Members
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Now, the Chief Secretary tries to make a distinction between the effect of a film on the people seeing it as opposed to the effect of books and newspapers. We are now, of course, dealing with political films. It has been said by experts that when you come to political films perhaps the effect is not as strong as a political essay, a political editorial. Certainly 23 nobody would ever try to distinguish the effect of a television 24 production and a film. I think the Chief Secretary was wrong when
he said that we've had this Regulation for 14 years. No, we only 26 had it for 28 days. This is the last day for which I could 27 challenge the Regulation. 28 ago.
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