² Morris v. Langdale (1800), 2 Bos, & P. 284, but compare Barnett v. Allen (1858), 3 H. & N. 376.

³ Sim v. Stretch, [1936] 2 All E.R. 1237, 1240, H.L.

⁴ National Service (Armed Forces) Act, 1939, s. 5.

⁵ Lord Camrose v. Action Press Ltd., Argus Press Ltd, and John Beckett, 1936 C. No. 1252. Times Newspaper, Oct. 14, 15, 16, 1937. Hilbery, J. and a special jury. And see Burns v. Associated Newspapers (1925), 42 T.L.R. 37, Astbury, J.

^5a A strong Court of Appeal (Greene, M.R., Asquith and Evershed, L.JJ.) has very recently held in Braddock v. Bevins, [1948] 1 All E.R. 450, that the following words were capable of a defamatory meaning as an attack upon the political sincerity and political integrity of the plaintiff: ‘I am horrified that the Socialist M.P. for this division… should persistently take sides with the Soviet Government and the British Communist Party”.

⁶ [1937] 1 K.B. 818, C.A., Greer, L.J. dissenting.

⁷ See particularly [1937] 1 K.B. at p. 841.

⁸ See Youssoupoff v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Ltd. (1934), 50 T.L.R. 581, C.A.

⁹ Textbook, 3rd ed., p. 237–8.Google Scholar

¹⁰ 10th ed., by Dr. Stallybrass, p. 371.

¹¹ 14th ed., by P. A. L. Landon, p. 188 n.

¹² Forrester v. Tyrrell (1893), 9 T.L.R. 257, C.A.

¹³ Meldrum v. Australian Broadcasting Co., Ltd., 1932, Vict, L. R. 425, and see 51 L.Q.R. 573.

¹⁴ Collected in 46 Harvard Law Review 133

¹⁵ The Times Newspaper, Oct. 8, 1940.Google Scholar

¹⁶ Cf. Holdsworth, 8 H.E.L. at p. 367.

¹⁷ Gatley on Libel and Slander, 3rd ed., p. 61.Google Scholar

¹⁸ [1916] 2 A.C. 481.

¹⁹ Ib. id., at p. 493–4.

²⁰ [1916] 2 A.C. 481.

²¹ (1937), 54 T.L.R. 289, 291, C.A.

²² Compare Knupffer v. London Express Newspapers, [1944] A.C. 116.