Word: libeller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Court found Herr von der Heydt guilty of deliberate libel and fined him 300 gold marks...
During the past week all England was interested in the libel charge brought by Mr. Winston Churchill against Lord Alfred Douglas, second son of the eighth Marquis of Queensberry, for publishing in a paper called Plain English libelous statements. The defendant alleged that Mr. Churchill had plotted with the late Sir Ernest Cassel to publish a false report of the Battle of Jutland, with the object of creating a panic on the neutral stock exchanges in order to sell German stocks at a high price and buy British stocks at a depreciated value...
...Hayes, council for the defense, called his attention to a recent editorial in The Morning Post, in which it was declared: " 'He is mentally incapable of realizing the truth or anything like it.' Did the witness intend to prosecute the Post for libel...
...Churchill has been criticized for not bringing these proceedings before. Most politicians are libeled; many Cabinet Ministers are libeled; and if they took action for the libel every time they were libeled they would be spending most of their time in the witness box instead of attending to their duties. Why, even judges are not immune from this kind of thing...
Lord Alfred Douglas, a son of the late Marquis of Queensberry, was held in bail at the Bow Street Court, London, on a charge of having maliciously and unlawfully published a defamatory libel on the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill...