Word: libeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your April 2 account of the Nation's attempt by a libel suit to stop the perfectly legitimate and justified criticism of its pro-Soviet foreign editor, J. Alvarez del Vayo, is typical of the double standard of morality of all "totalitarian-liberals." It was bad enough that the Nation refused to publish Mr. Creenberg's mild letter. But to resort to police methods to prevent its publication elsewhere betrays the hollowness of the Nation's claims to being a liberal periodical. Were the many individuals whom the Nation criticizes on political grounds to resort to libel...
Just as the Nation has two different standards of morality in judging the U.S.S.R. and our country, so it applies two different standards of journalism. Its own irresponsible attacks on genuine liberals is legitimate criticism, but a reasoned objection to its Soviet apologetics is "libel." What a comedown from the days of Godkin and Villard...
...suit that began it all-the $75,000 libel and slander suit filed against Whittaker Chambers in 1948 by Alger Hiss-was quietly dropped in Baltimore's federal district court. To answer the suit, Chambers brought forth the famed "pumpkin papers." Result: Hiss's indictment and conviction for perjury. Federal Judge W. Calvin Chesnut last week dismissed the suit "with prejudice," which means that Hiss (now serving a five-year sentence at Lewisburg, Pa. penitentiary) may never again file a similar action against Chambers...
Replied the Nation tersely: ". . . A periodical has a public duty not to disseminate scandal." Then Editor Kirchwey filed a libel suit against the New Leader and Critic Greenberg...
...McCarthy called Columnist Drew Pearson a Communist tool (TIME, Jan. 8), he thought he was safe enough. As usual, he made his attack from the libelproof U.S. Senate floor. But last week litigious Columnist Pearson thought he had found a way around McCarthy's immunity, slipped a libel suit against...