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P: A libel suit brought by Architect Alister Gladstone MacDonald, eldest son of Prime Minister MacDonald, against the London Daily Mail was settled out of court. The offending article in the Mail said that Mr. MacDonald "began by being a clever architect," referred to his "adventures in Hollywood," spoke of his alleged connection with a firm of publishers of cheap novels. The Mail acknowledged "misapprehension of the facts," guaranteed to indemnify Architect MacDonald, announced that it thought so much of him professionally it had engaged him as an architect.

P: U. S. newsmen regarded with wonder the action of a Canadian Court of Assizes in authorizing contempt proceedings against the Toronto Star for publishing an interview with Sergeant John Leopold, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer who testified against Communists on trial. Said the court: "Newspapers have no business publishing an interview of things that were given outside the witness box while this trial is proceeding."

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