Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weekly reproduced a purported letter from De Gasperi, apparently addressed to a British officer in 1944, which called for Allied bombing of Rome as "the only way to break the moral resistance of the Roman people." De Gasperi pronounced the letter a forgery, directed his lawyers to sue for libel. The amount asked in damages was only 1 lira (about one-sixth of a cent); it was vindication that De Gasperi wanted...
...Britain, many newspapers are so intimidated by the tight libel laws that they hastily retract stories when threatened with a libel suit. Last week Fleet Streeters saluted one scrappy British newshen who gave British newspapers a lesson in the importance of standing behind the stories they print. In court, Feature Writer Honor Tracy, 38, won a case against Lord Kemsley's Sunday Times* (circ. 531,566) after the paper settled a libel suit before trial and printed an apology for an article she had written. The Sunday Times apology, she charged, sold her "down the river" by implying that...
...admitted" that her article was "an unjustifiable attack on the character and posi tion" of Doneraile's Canon Maurice O'Connell. Indignant that the Sunday Times had disavowed her story without consulting her or trying to check the truth of the piece, Honor Tracy filed her own: libel suit. Defendant: the Sunday Times. Charge: damage to the professional reputation of Writer Tracy...
...circ. 400,000), right-wing L'Aurore charged that L'Humanité, whose circulation has dropped from 600,000 to 172,000 in the last seven years, "would long ago be dead if [it had not received] subsidies from abroad." L'Humanité replied with a libel suit against L'Aurore, demanded 1,000,000 francs damages. In court, witness after witness backed up L'Aurore's charges of support from Russia. Among them...
After hearing the evidence, the court threw out the libel suit, ruled that the charges against L'Humanité "are likely to be true." Added L'Aurore last week: "Such a judgment should open the eyes of those Frenchmen . . . who think that . . . the Communists have the interests of France at heart just like anyone else...