Word: libels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anyone still in doubt as to the real status of Tass, a London court made a clarifying decision last week. Vladimir Krajina, a refugee Czech now living in London, had filed a libel suit against Tass for charging in a news bulletin distributed to London newspapers that he had betrayed British paratroopers to the Gestapo. The Court of Appeal dismissed Krajina's complaint. Reason: on the testimony of the Russian ambassador himself, Tass was an official organ of the Soviet state; as such, it was entitled to full diplomatic immunity, even when it published a libel...
...atomic scientists or stock manipulators. Millions of them had never sat on a flagpole, made the headlines in a love-nest raid or lost a $14,000 Russian sable stole; almost as many had yet to sniff cocaine, snap at a waiter in the Stork Club, sue somebody for libel, own a Jaguar 3½-liter convertible, or pour a champagne cocktail over a blonde's shoulder blades...
...boldly put the finger closed with a bang. But Miami's cops were not so ready to turn in their badges. Last week, after the News had refused to retract its charges, 55 of the city's 63 detectives filed a $1,000,000 suit for libel. That was just what the News wanted. In court, it would have the chance to prove Reporter Petit's story-and get some action at last...
Y.P.A. said it had put out its pamphlet in defiance of the rule, which it branded "prior censorship." Dean James Peace stated that leaflet material must not contain facts that cannot be substantiated, poor English or obscene language, opinion labelled as fact, or libel. "This does not constitute prior censorship," he said. The suspension has been lifted...
...they made several recommendations. They asked that the committee be continued with enlarged powers; that it green the textbooks used in the schools in the State of Washington: and that a person affiliated with three or more "Communist front organizations" be labelled a Communist without recourse to slander or libel action. "Affiliation with recognized Communist front organizations should place the burden of proof as to loyalty on the individual so affiliated," the committee stated...