BY HIS READING WILL JUDGE DECIDE
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Receivea •J.'uesoav, 9 p.m. SYDNEY, June 4. A copy of the contentious novel "We Were the Rats," is to be read by Judge Studdert who was foday handed the hook in the Appeals Uonff, ■ bc-fove he decides whether it is an obscene publication. Uounsel for the axtpelTaut cora panv, Angns and Robertson, also handed the judge copies of Boccaccio's Decamevou. Balzac* 's droll storieS, a volume of Uhaucer, Shakespoar 's complete works, and works of Aristophanes. The judge said he would not delav roading Glassop 's book aiul would read the others if he though t it necessai'v. The company was appealing against a conviction and fino imposed by a magistrate on a cliarge of having published an obscene book.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 June 1946, Page 5
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