Superman Stymied

Last week Superman dropped down out of the sky on a mythical European war front. While shrapnel and machine-gun bullets ricocheted harmlessly off his impervious body, Superman called a 30-minute truce on hostilities between Blitzen and Rutland, dashed off under the eyes of bemused soldiers to "expose this war as a mockery."

Such playboy feats are all very warming to the neutral U. S., where Superman is the No. 1 comic-strip character, a hero to millions of youthful muscle-worshipers; but to a country at war, like Canada, this reduction of a life-&-death struggle to the absurdity of a comic strip is no joke. Superman's irresistible strength came up against the impenetrable wall of Canadian censorship, and one day last fortnight there was no Superman in the Toronto Star.

Said a whimsical news paragraph: "Superman . . . will be missing from its regular space in the Star while he completes one of his mighty and mysterious tasks in his own inimitable way." While Star gazers wondered what Superman was up to now, U. S. readers saw him snatch Blitzen's dictator, Rutland's "warmongering" commander, set them down in no-man's-land to fight it out alone, while disgusted soldiers of both armies laid down their arms, went home to their spring plowing. This week, having ended World War II to his own satisfaction, Superman was back in the Toronto Star.

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