Word: libellant
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...were witnesses in a libel suit brought by French Author David Rousset against the French Communist weekly Les Lettres Françaises. Heavy, one-eyed David Rousset, 38, an ex-inmate of Hitler's Buchenwald, had proposed a year ago that an international commission investigate all the concentration camps in the world. Les Lettres retorted that Russia had only "correctional stockades," that Rousset faked his evidence. Rousset sued for damages. El Campesino and the others came to testify to the reality of Soviet slave labor...
Last week, with help from the Tribune, the committee put on the record some facts that the Tribune had long wanted to print but dared not, because of the danger of a libel suit. One witness testified that Sheriff Hugh Culbreath of Hillsborough County (which includes Tampa) had received campaign contributions from one of the city's most notorious underworld hoodlums. In its coverage of the hearings (30 columns the first day), the Tribune pulled no punches, despite the fact that Sheriff Culbreath's son had been married to the daughter of Tribune Publisher J. C. Council only...
...private brawl. But last week, after Adam Hats had announced that it was not renewing its contract as Pearson's radio sponsor, newsmen from all over the nation jumped in. The big gun on McCarthy's side was Westbrook Pegler, who has long been in & out of libel suits with Pearson himself. Said Pegler of his longtime foe: "That lying blackguard is my man, just as Harold Ickes was in his time. Santa Claus brought him to me. Pearson is a liar and a rogue and I will belt him through the skylight as a service...
...Hats, slightly nervous (the Senator implied that anyone who bought an Adam Hat was aiding & abetting Moscow). Pearson cried that the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and even the President of France had applauded him for fighting Communism. He dared McCarthy to repeat the charges outside the libel-proof citadel of the Senate. McCarthy, who knows a lot about libel himself, ignored the invitation...
...that it does not matter whether or not Richards ordered his employees to slaut the news, since a radio station should be as free as a newspaper to present the news as it sees fit. The only limitation on a publication, they maintain, should be the possibility of a libel suit...