LABOUR LIBEL ACTION
SIR W. CITRINE AND OTHERS GET DAMAGES
JUDGMENT AGAINST “DAILY WORKER.” STRONG COMMENT FROM BENCH. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Dav, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON. May G. In the libel action against, the “Daily Worker." Sir Walter Citrine was awarded £3OO damages, tour others £2OO. and two others £l5O. Mr Justice Stable, in. delivering judgment, said the libels wore the culmination of long and persistent attempts to oust plaintiffs from their positions. There was not a scintilla of evidence to support, the abominable charge that Sir Walter Citrine or any member of the Labour delegation that went to Paris was engaged in anything dishonest. He/ did not think lie was entitled to infer that Moscow paid for, the attack against the plaintiff. "That," he said, “is a matter remaining in the decent obscurity in which Mr Pountney prefers to leave it.” The judge added that the libel was protracted and unscrupulous and inspired from abroad. Defendant had not the courage to go into the witness box. He awarded costs against, defendant.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1940, Page 6
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173LABOUR LIBEL ACTION Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1940, Page 6
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