NURSE CAVELL FILM
STATEMENT BY HOME SECRETARY London, February 16. Sir William Joynsou Hicks, in answer to questions, said he was glad of an opportunity of correcting misapprehensions relating to the Nurse Cavell film, “The Dawn.” All statutory powers controlling the character of films, he said, were vested in the local licensing authorities, who relied in all exceptional cases upon an unofficial body known as the British Board of Film Censors. It would obviously be improper for the Government to interfere witli the local authorities’ discretion except to see where public policy was concerned to the extent affecting international relations, when it should intimate its views before, the licensing authority reached a decision. This was the only action the Government had taken regarding “The Dawn.”
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 121, 20 February 1928, Page 6
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125NURSE CAVELL FILM Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 121, 20 February 1928, Page 6
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