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Last week the Worker's, publisher, dormousy Edward Pountney, was in court to defend the suit. He pleaded "fair comment" under the British Press Law, but no sooner had the trial started than it became obvious that the T. U. C. leaders were determined to expose what they claimed was the Worker's Muscovite background. Sir Walter testified that in the first fortnight of the war the Worker suddenly changed its policy of supporting Labor against Hitlerism, began calling the war imperialistic. Who ordered the change? "Moscow," said Sir Walter Citrine. Who financed the Worker to the tune...
Kaarlo Valkonen (Alfred Lunt) is a scientist strongly opposed to war. But when war comes on the terms it does, Valkonen abandons his pacifism, turns down a chance to leave Finland, and goes, like his patriot son, to be killed. His wife (Lynn Fontanne) stays also, prepared to defend her home, but she compels her daughter-in-law, who is expecting a child, to flee the country...
...defend their title to the Goldthwait Cup. Bert Haines's Hightweight eights embark for Derby, Connectiout this afternoon where tomorrow they meet their rival crews from Yale and Princeton...
Reminiscing on the days of yore O'Brien longed for the colorful regattas on the Charles when every boat club turned out with its crews of working men to defend their honor...
...effects of increasing the number of inexperienced tutors. A Tutorial Chairman emphasized a similar point: "One of the difficulties in the system is that the older men avoid tutorial work. As a result there is created a fissure in the department between old and young, between those who defend course instruction and those who defend tutorial instruction...