COMMUNIST CLAIMS
Defence In “Daily Worker” Case LONDON, May 1. Mr. D. N. Pritt, K.C.,' opening for the defence in the “Daily Worker” libel action, said the case was important because it involved the serious question as to whether the use of the law’ of libel endangered the right of the Press or anyone else to utter legitimate criticism. The Communists claimed that they were consistently and strongly an antiFascist party and sincerely desired to get rid of Hitler and Hitler’s Fascism, but did not think this was possible by carrying on war. They believed that the detestable regime in Germany could only be defeated from the inside. Mr. Pritt submitted that the articles in the “Daily Worker” ■were fair comment.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 186, 3 May 1940, Page 9
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121COMMUNIST CLAIMS Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 186, 3 May 1940, Page 9
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