"Der Tag!"

NZ Truth, Issue 1179, 5 July 1928, Page 6

"Der Tag!"

AFTER the London diplomats had worked ' themselves into a. really first-class f my oyer the picture, . ' 'Dawn, V : Grermaiiy, it appears, took hut scant notice of the film. , 7 The picture, it was said, would inflame public opinion and possibly cause a 'break m international relations; the censor was appealed t6 and the machinery oi legislation was set whirring to prevent the public from seeing how Nurse Edith Cavell 1 made history by her glorious ,death. It was said m England that the incident ' • was not faithfully portrayed/and that, m any case, no good purpose could be served by showing the picture. And yet, when" Dawn" was officially screened m Germany, we find the "Abendblatt" saying .:, '.• We cannot understand what the trouble was about. Thefilm, is fairly close, to v historical truth. There is no reason why it should not be publicly shown m Grermanyi" , - \ . No reason: "What was riot deemed politic to give to the Eng-i lish people to show one of the brutalities of a war made m Germany and the heroism of a woman made m England, becomes mere jovial entertainment m Germany! / If it is .''close to historical "truth" m the e^es of those who perpetrated the outrage, then history and civilization would be. the Abetter; for the screening of "Dawn" all over the world.