SLATED BY JUDGE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 206, 1 August 1941, Page 6

SLATED BY JUDGE

CAPTAIN RAMSAY, M.P

“DISLOYAL HEART AND SOUL.” (United Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 1.50 p.m.) LONDON, July 31. Captain A. H. M. Ramsay. M.P., lias been awarded a farthing damages in an action for libel against the New York Times arising out of an allegation by the neAvspaper that he sent treasonable information to the German Legation at Dublin. .Mr Justice Atkinson ordered Ramsay to pay the bulk of defendant’s costs. He disalloAvcd defendant’s pleas ot privilege and innocent dissemination. There was a further plea of justification of the allegation that Ramsay Avas a Fifth Columnist for Hitler, but no attempt had been made to justify the accusation of treason.

In his judgment Mr Justice Atkinson said he believed Ramsay approved of Nazi propaganda and did Avliat lie could to assist its propagation. He endeavoured to persuade the British people that they were fighting in the interests of Jewry. “Ramsay is disloyal heart and soul to the King, the Government, and the people. He disapproved of .Mr Churchill and many members of the Cabinet so strongly that lie avus able to say in the Avitness bos that

he disapproved of them more strongly than that loathsome traitor, Joyce (“Lord Haw Haw”). “1 believe any jury would find that the expression Fifth Columnist applies to Ramsay, it is beyond all question that he is pro-Hitler. 1 am satisfied, no jury Avould give him damages for the treason allegation.”

The Secretary for War announced in the House of Commons that Major Sir Herbert Paul Latham, 31. P., had been placed under arrest and ordered to be tried by court-martial in connection with offences against military law.

Captain Ramsay lias been detained in prison since the beginning of the Avar under the provisions of the public safety regulations.