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CLAIM AGAINST NEWSPAPER. AN APOLOGY AND DAMAGES. (United Press Association.; (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright!) LONDON, April 2,3. The Sunday Express has apologised, and has agreed to pay Mr Citrine £SOO damages.—United ServiceIn January Mr Walter Citrine, secretary of the Trades Union Congress, issued a writ for libel against the Sunday Express in respect to the account of an alleged interview with Signor Mussolini. The Sunday Express stated that Mr Walter Citrine, secretary of the Trade Union Congress, and Mr Sassenback, secretary of the International Federation of Trade Unions went secretly to Rome to persuade Signor Mussolini to allow Italy to Join the federation. The Labour leaders harangued for exactly 65 minutes, after which Signor Mussolini talked for exactly 65 .minutes. Ho concluded : “ You have the audacity to ask me to delegate the rule of my .workpeople to a handful of political fanatics at Amsterdam. You have wasted youi time, and I do not know whose money.” Signor Mussolini then rang the bell, and the door was opened for the exit of the Labourites.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20701, 26 April 1929, Page 11
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175WRIT FOR LIBEL Otago Daily Times, Issue 20701, 26 April 1929, Page 11
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