E.GERMANY BRANDS 007 AS 'FASCIST'

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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: April 12, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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Brands 007
"As `Fascist'
BERLIN, April 11 (UPI)II
James Bond (Secret Agent
.007), who has fought-and
made love to-bad and beautl
ful Communist spies, was de
Glared' persona non grata to.-..day in East Germany.
.i -Secret Agent 007,-according
;to the Communists, is a fas-
cist, a racist and "flies with!
'the napalm bombers over!
Viet-Nam." " a
The official Communist Par
ty newspaper Neues Deutsch-
'land lnd and the official Com-
r unist youth newspaper Junge,
welt attacked Bond and his:
creator, the late author Ian'
Fleming, in language they'
usually reserve for American,,
"imperialist warmongers." 11
"There is something of.'
Bond in the snipers an the]
'streets of Selma," said Neues
Deutschland. "He is flying:
with the napalm bombers . overt
'Viet-Nam."
The Bond books and movies',
:Ncues Deutschland went 'on,
!make socialism "synonymous
with crime; unions are fifth;
columns of the Soviet Union.;
Slavs are killers and sneaks.:
Scientists . are amoral egg-;
heads. Negroes are supersti-;
tious eggheads. Persons of,
],mixed race are trash."
The diatribe surprised West-'
erners since the East German
government has been intro
ducing, some western enter-.
i. tainer"s, 'films, plays ' and ,pop.
ular novels to the East.
The musical "Kiss Me Kate"?
l opened at East Berlin's Metro
pol Theater the' other night,
trumpet player Louis Arm-,
strong just completed a trium.
phant tour, here, and the movie
"High Noon" finally will be;
shown.
James Bond, however, defi-
nitely is not on the, East Ger-'
-man Culture Ministry's wanted
list.
"The business being done:
with James Bond is a business:
based on the cold war, a bust.;
ness with the'lowest instincts,
a dirty business aimed at fas.
cist brutality. And ignorance,"
intoned Junge Welt.
It charged .that the West
(,created Bond to soften up the
world for "The gas war in
Viet-Nam, the murder of civil:
'frights demonstrators in Amer-+
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