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...Croix de Feu, Duke Joseph Pozzo di Borgo, called M. Tardieu to bear witness that the Duke had spoken truly in making public accusations against Colonel de La Rocque which the colonel described in a speech as "maliciously false." The Duke took this charge as occasion to sue for slander, and the Lyon court was expected to give judgment next week...
...second time as a candidate for a bishopric, he was appointed, but the papal bull of appointment was not signed because U. S. prelates reported that Father Richard had once served a jail term. Before the Vatican discovered that the jailing had been for an unpaid judgment for slander, won by a man whom Father Richard had excommunicated for deserting his wife and remarrying another, Father Richard died in a cholera epidemic of 1832. He left a library of 3,000 volumes, then probably the Midwest's largest, and a number of letters for which his current biographers have...
Libel suits involving public officials and prominent persons are almost certain to create a stir. But there is more than mere slander in the Narragansett fracas. The fight between two unscrupulous persons, one, a hot-headed politician, and the other, a person who, many believe, is trying to buy his way into politics, is bound to be no ordinary fray. Each man has demanded the removal of the other, with aspersions on character and integrity freely cast. Each man has defied the other, and each has taken up the other's dare. The courts have reversed the decision...
...Zeeland swore that this was a lie, offered to open all his private accounts. Parliament believed him. Gustave Sap's own Catholic Party demanded that he either apologize publicly or leave the organization. Gustave Sap refused to do either, sued a number of his Catholic brethren for slander, but from then on attacks on Paul van Zeeland were generally made by Rexist Leader Leon Degrelle...
British newsorgans continued meantime to devote more & more space to the ex-King and his wife. The evening Star reported last week that the couple propose to devote their future to social work in England as soon as "calumnies and slander" have abated. A stanch little pro-Windsor party in Britain, who would like nothing better, regarded it as a favorable omen that the Duke last week sent $500 to a Leicestershire agricultural society for a new fair ground and the Duchess $25 to a fund for a new church school in Warfield, Berkshire, from which one of her ancestors...