Reds & Riding Hood

After it had been in rehearsal two days, British Broadcasting Corp.'s censor banned last week a radio drama called The Krassin Saves the Italia.

As rehearsed, the radio play presented, among other scenes, one in which Soviet officials debated whether they would be justified in sending the Red icebreaker Krassin at great expense to rescue General Umberto Nobile and other survivors of the Italian polar dirigible flight (1928).

This errand of succor was of course actually undertaken. Italians were actually rescued by the Reds (TIME, July 23, 1928, et ante). But to present such facts over the radio, the British censor ruled, would be pro-Red propaganda, especially as the broadcast was to close with the Italian national air and the Communist "Red Flag."

On the same day that Red facts were banned from British broadcasting, a film called Little Red Riding Hood was condemned by the British Board of Motion Picture Censors. Official reason: "The story of Little Red Riding Hood has a terrifying effect upon neurotic children."

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