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Frequent and widespread has been the expression of contempt for the blundering and faltering progress of the democracies in the present crisis. In history's most gigantic poker game, Hitler plays a winning hand because he has the confidence of a nation behind him, while Chamberlain and Daladier feel the depressing and distracting pull of public opinion. With French Communists threatening to strike rather than submit to national defense measures and British opposition flaring against the Cabinet's City policies, the Reich stands firm and united. Seemingly Fascism has once more demonstrated its ability to outmaneuver democracy because...
...still refuses to be hurried. Meantime, Los Angeles' Superior Court last week found harried Harry Bridges guilty of another offense-trying to influence it in a labor dispute by releasing a telegram to Secretary Perkins threatening a strike if his union lost the case-fined him $125 for contempt of court...
...stitches for this motley united front were basted in two months ago when the Los Angeles Bar Association charged the Times with contempt of court, citing editorials on court decisions published after the verdict but before the passing of sentence or other disposition. Two of the five editorials cited dealt with labor cases. One hailed the conviction of a group of C. I. O. sit-down strikers before the court had passed sentence; the other opposed a pending probation plea of two A. F. of L. members convicted of assault. When the Times published two editorials denouncing the suit...
Fortnight ago, Judge Wilson overruled almost all the Times's demurrers, ordered a trial. Some of his reasons: freedom of the press is subordinate to the independence of the judiciary; an article may constitute contempt even if the judge involved never sees it; the question is not what effect the article did have but what effect it might have had; contempt is committed if an article "places the judge in such a position that he will never know whether he was unconsciously biased by its publication"; a case is pending and cannot be commented upon while it is still...
...arguments having been exhausted at the demurrer hearings, the trial last week was a mere formality. The Times-Mirror Co., Publisher Chandler and Managing Editor L. D. Hotchkiss were found guilty of contempt, fined a total of $1,050. Attorney Cosgrove, preparing an appeal, warned: "If the decision. . . is sustained, freedom of the press as it is known and as it has been practiced by the journals of the nation is gone forever...