CAMPAIGN AGAINST AMERICAN COMICS
"Received Thursday, .11.20 p.m. .TOHANXEHBITRG, -May 16. Soutli African women are campaiguing against "peniicious and trasliv 'American comics which are fiooding the country engendering in the voung an erroneous conce])tiou of life." Speak ers at the National Council of Women declarod the comics contained crude humour and a sulitle glorification of gangsterism, with the insiiiuation that might was right, which appealed to sndistic and sensational juvenile tendencies.
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Chronicle (Levin), 17 May 1946, Page 5
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71CAMPAIGN AGAINST AMERICAN COMICS Chronicle (Levin), 17 May 1946, Page 5
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