ALLEGED LIBEL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 92, 16 March 1927, Page 9

ALLEGED LIBEL

ACTION IN UNITED STATES. SELECTING THE JURY. UTMOST CARE TAKEN. (By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright.) Received March 16, 11.30 a.m. NEW YORK, March 15. Despite all protestations to the contrary, it is now becoming evident that both sides in the Ford alleged libel case are beginning to admit that Jewry has something to do with the case. The selection of the jury for the hearing of Aaron Sapiro’s suit occupied the attention of the judge and attorneys throughout the day with the questioning of prospective 'alesmen, showing that even the defence, which firmly maintained that Jewry was not an issue, nevertheless took cognizance of the difference between Jew and Gentile as jury material.

Similarly, a man who testified that he once joined the Ku Klux Klan “more out of curiosity than anything else,” was subjected to close questioning by Sapiro’s counsel.—A. and N.'Z. cable.

At Detroit what promises to be one of the most sensational libel trials in recent years opened a couple of days ago with Henry Ford as defendant. Aaron Sapiro, a noted attorney of Jewish extraction’, and organiser of the most important group of agricultural co-operative societies in America, is suing Ford for a million dollars damages on the ground that he was personally libelled _ m a series of twenty articles printed in Ford’s weekly publication, Dearborn Independent, in which it was alleged Sapiro, as part of an organised internatioanl Jewish financial ring, was dominating co-operative organisations for personal gain.