MINISTER'S NATIONALITY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17327, 26 November 1919, Page 9

MINISTER'S NATIONALITY.

«»■ SIR ALFRED MOND. | ACTION' FOR LIBEL. LONDON, Nov. 7. An interesting series of political libel and Blunder action*, in which Sir Allied Mond, F.rst Commissioner of Works, and liis brother, Mr. Robert Mwnd, .->< ientist and company director, ai<- tli e chief plaintilts, has opened at Cardiff. 1 Sir Alfred Mond sued a -prominent Swansea burgeon, Mr. W. V. Brooks, who, : speaking aL lie- general election in 1918, - i alluded u> ','..■■ plaintiff as a " lull-blooded German pi «-iri« a.< a Welshman." and added that only a Herman possessing the. hide, of a, rhinoceros would stand for the. ' British Parliament. Dr. Brooks apologised and paid the cost.fc. Sir Alfred then fued the South Wales! Daily Post for libel, and also the editor,! Mr. David Davie*, who counter-claimed ' for alleced slander. Mr. Davies unsu<-- I tessfully opposed Sir Alfred Mond at the : general election ; Sir Edward Parson, counsel for Sir Alfred Mond, said that defendants bad in-I finished that his client in 1918 maintained a dual nationality and acted as a German | agent. j Sir Alfred Mond. giving evidence, said ' hp was a pure F.amashireman, and had never done anything in hie life to promote German interests. I