DAMAGES AWARDED.
LIBEL ACTION IN BRITAIN
JUDGE’S STRONG COMMENT,
Received May 7, 10.30 a.m. LONDON, May 6. In the libel action in which Sir Walter president, . and six members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress sued E. RPountney, proprietor of the Communist paper Daily Worker for damages. Sir Walter was awarded £3OO damages, four others £2OO, and the two others £l5O. Mr Justice Stable, in delivering judgment, said the libels were the culmination of long and persistent attempts to oust plaintiffs from their positions. There was n<?t a scintilla ot evidence to support the abominable charge that Sir Walter Citrine or any member of the Labour delegation that went to Paris engaged m anything dishonest. Ho did not think lie was entitled to infer that Moscow bad paid for the attack against plaintiff. “That is a matter remaining in decent obscurity, in which Pountney prefers to leave it,” the Judge added. “The libel • was protracted and unscrupulous, and inquired from abioad. Defendant had not the courage to go into the witness box.” He awarded costs against defendant.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 134, 7 May 1940, Page 7
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180DAMAGES AWARDED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 134, 7 May 1940, Page 7
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