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Show Swiss Censors Afraid Of 'America, I Love You' BERN, SWITZERLAND. - The song, "America, I Love You," has caused considerable consternation in this neutral capital. Censors, inserting insert-ing that the words are "too pro-American" pro-American" and not in line with Switzerland's neutral policy, have cut out parts of the American film, "Tin Pan Allley." in which it appears. ap-pears. In 10 doing, the censors brought on a storm of protests from moviegoers, movie-goers, who said the deletions spoiled the plot A night club featured the song sung by an American Negro. Three nights later the Negro said he had been asked not to sing the words, although al-though the orchestra was allowed to play the melody. The censors did not chop up another an-other American picture, in which Cary Grant, playing the part of a newspaper city editor, directs one of his assistants to "stick Hitler on the funny page." |