1934 (10) TMI 8

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....st the respondent as editor of a local newspaper, The Mid-day News, in respect of an article entitled: "An Armistice Day in "Rome," which was published in that newspaper on November 19, 1928, in which, in the second column, determinate facts, dishonouring and untruthful, are ascribed to plaintiff, damaging said plaintiff's honour and reputation in such a manner as to expose him to public contempt and derision, imputing to him that he had stupidly and unwarrantedly attacked the dogmas of the Catholic Faith, in which article the following words occur: But the advent of Strickland has created such an atmosphere through his stupid and unwarranted attacks on the tenets of faith. 3. In his statement of defence the respondent repudiated the....

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....le was written in English. 6. It will thus be seen that the appellant found it expedient to innuendo the word "tenets" as meaning "dogmas," while the respondent, in addition to his general repudiation of the appellant's claim, pleaded justification. The appellant produced no further evidence, but the respondent produced certain reports of debates in the Legislative Assembly on January 31, and February 18, 1924, containing speeches by the appellant, and a publication, edited by the Vatican in 1930, containing documents relating to the Maltese Question, and which may be conveniently referred to as "The White Book." This document are matter was produced by the respondent in support of his plea of justification, and the White Book was no....