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...Deutsche Partei promptly expelled Hedler, the Bundestag lifted his parliamentary immunity. Early this month, Hedler was haled into Neumünster court to answer charges of defamation of the Jews, incitement to class hatred, libel of Knoeringen, Steltzer and Schumacher. Of the three judges, two were ex-Nazis. Last week they found Hedler legally blameless...
...said. "Mr. Hiss represents the concealed enemy against which we are all fighting. I have testified against him with remorse and pity." Two nights later Chambers repeated his charges over the radio. A month later Hiss brought a $50,000 (later increased to $75,000) suit against Chambers for libel. The case vanished briefly behind the closed doors of the New York grand jury, where Chambers appeared and seven times denied that any actual espionage had been involved; behind the closed doors of Hiss's lawyer's office in Baltimore, where Chambers began making pre-trial depositions...
...Will Be Heard." Garrison became an abolitionist hero in 1830 when, as a young Baltimore editor, he denounced a slave trader in print. Fined $50 and costs for his "gross and malicious libel," he went to jail because he lacked the money. In jail he. wrote a thundering pamphlet about his case-and his career as a reformer had begun...
Cattaneo (TIME, Dec. 26), he haled the proprietors of Buenos Aires' staunchly independent newspapers La Prensa and La Nation into court on libel charges. Other papers were also punished for opposition to his regime. Salta's outspoken El In-transigente found its newsprint supply cut off and so did Buenos Aires' tabloid Clarin. In Cordoba, inspectors found the printing plant of the firmly anti-Peronista Jesuit daily Los Principios "insanitary," and peremptorily padlocked it. This week Los Principios and Clarin had been allowed to resume publication, but a congressional committee closed the Communist daily La Hora, charging...
Earlier in the day, Murphy completed his cross-examination of William L. Marbury LL.B. '24, a member of the Harvard Corporation. Murbury, who is Hiss's attorney in the latter's libel action against Chambers conceded under questioning that former Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson LL.B. '15 had told him in 1947 that Hiss was a Communist...