Libery, Sooty
Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 26, 1939.
MOVING A GREAT HOSPITAL Libel Action
Seven Days To Go 8 Minutes Away
ONE
NE of the biggest and most complicated removal jobs ever attempted in Britain faces the authorities of Westminster Hospital.
This month the entire contents of the old building in Broad Sanctuary, opposite Westminster Abbey, will be removed to the new in Horseferry Road, about eight minutes' walk away.
There must be no hitch, for while the work is being done treatment of in-patients and out-patients must be continued.
"GIGANTIC TASK"
"It is a gigantic task," said on omelat "but preparations ace now rpmplete.
"We shall remove about 100,000 records of past patients. These are
of vital medical importance.
the new
few
hospital, guaranteed the last 10,- 00. They agreed to split this be tween them. Actually they have been called upon to pay £3,500 each. "Mr. Docker has already given over £50,000. Sir Edward Meyerstein) has given over £15,000."
Franco's Frugal Brother-In-Law
of
ond
"When they have been taken too his fervent admiration of the
building they must be los Herr Hitler classifled and arranged in apple-ple Signor Mussolini Don Ramon Serrano order.
"During the first
days mis- Suner, the Spanish Minister of the cellaneous equipment will be trans- Interior, joins a suitably dictatorial frugality where food and drink are ferred.
the operating concerned. "Four days later theatre, furnishings will be taken over, but one operating theatre will be kept going in the old building for emergency cutes.
"Pathological and bacteriological equipment will be removed on the
day,
sahe next day the dispensary will be moved. This will perhaps, be the most exarting task of ull. Thousands
At the banquet given to Senor Suner by Signor Mussolini in Rome recently the Duce's own modération
at
table was at least matched by his guest of honour,
Recently a friend was at a banquet in Seville nt which Senor Suner was present. The choicest wines succeed. ed one another. At the end of the meal, which lasted several hours.
of bottles must be token to the new Senor Suner had six full glasses be- -buliding and correctly classified.
£850,000 RAISED
fore him. He had sipped each once
Ten-year-old Jose Matute, hitch-hiked more than 1,700 miles
to Hollywood from Guadalajara, Mexico, to break into movies. Hollywood police found him and Dolores Del Rio, Mexican, star, bids him return home,
Senor Suner does not alight from
only
Senor Suner is a fanatic-and "Later the patients will go to: their new home, and on the follow-looks it. Pale-faced, blazing-eyed, Ing day, all the people in the cancer the brother-in-law of Gen. Franco annexe at Hampstead will be taken will undoubtedly play a very import- to the special section which has beenant role in the new Spain. He is an! ardent Phalangist, and strongly pro- bullt for them.
special feature of the new Nazi. He inakes no secret of his dis- **A hospital is that each unit will have like of the democracies. He is not
the rather confined hall of the Minis- Its own out-patients' development. popular with the generals.
try, where there is just room for it, This is an entirely new development, GUARDING A MINISTER which will benefit patients and stall. Algorous precautions are taken to Jammed against the stairs.
Senor Suner.
the The engine is started some time "The fund of £850.000 has now safeguard
At
his car in the street. Instead the car is driven over the pavement and into
On more than
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HALSEY, Ore. Eighteen years ago Mrs. Herman spread. She sewed in more than a mile of thread a year until this year'
By Hitler's Former Friend DR. ERNST FRANZ-
SEDGWICK HANF- STAENGL, former friend of Hitler, whom he was stated to have once shelter- ed, brought an action for damages in the King's Bench Division recently,
Complaining that he had been libelled by statements in an American Journal, the "New Republic," of April 27, 1938, the doctor, whose address · was given as Gunterstone Road, West Kensington, sued Selfridge and Company, Limited, Oxford Street, W., who sold the paper.
The case was heard by Mr. Justice Atkinson and a special jury.
Selfridges, In defence. sald they had sold the "New Repubile" in the ordinary course of thelf business and they relied upon the fact that the Bole of the paper by them was made Dr. Hanfstaenpl's to a person on behalf.
Mr. Eric Suchs, K.C., for Dr. Hant- stoengl, said the paragraph contain- ing the alleged libel was headed: "Undesirable Refugees," and included the following:
"Dry-Hanfstuengl was famous us Hitler's boy friend until he became the victim of a palace intrigue.
"Political sanctuary is supposed to be for the victims of persecution, not the persecutors themselves."
VOLUNTARY EXILE
Dr. Hantstaengl, Mr. Sachs con- tinued, had been living in voluntary exile in England since 1937 and no one was going to suggest a word against the propriety of his conduct here, or, indeed, as far as counsel knew, against his conduct anywhere.
At the age of 18, Dr. Hanfstaengl went to New York and he was educated at Harvard.
When in Germany in 1022 he come for the Arst time into personal con- tuet with Herr Hitler. Plaintiff was
been subscribed. Of this, E420,000 Ministry of the Interior in Burgos, if before the Minister is due to leave Koch started sewing on a fancy bed- then 35. was given by the public. The lost two acquaintances pause to chat on the building again,
the stairs or in a corridor, they are one occasion, soldiers, police and £100,000 was raised in six weeks.
"Sir Edward Meyerstein and Mr. Immediately approached. by guards visitors have been nearly overcome
by fumes from the exhaust. Bernard Docker, chairman of the and asked to move on.
the spread hos 26 miles.
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FRIENDSHIP WANED
From 1933, kuid Mr. Sachs, the year in which Herr Hitler came into power by being made the German Chun- cellor, the friendship between Dr. Hunfstacngl and Herr Hitter waned. In February, 1037, he left the
try.
coun-
Dr. Hanfstacngl. giving evidence, said his friendship with lerr Hiller ended in 1934, and-since then he had never spoken to him,
Mr. Sachs: There is a suggestion which you interpret in this article us to your having certain perverted re- lations with the person' numed In the article. Is there the slightest foundation for that?-Not the slight est.
"Mr. G. D. Roberts, K.C. (cross- You examining for Selfridge's): came to Britain in February, 1937, and in July you brought an action against a weekly paper published here? Yes.
Did the defendants apologise and In- pay compensation?-Yes, and demnify me for costs.
Did you bring another action ngainst a dally puper in which the defendants apologised and. Indemal- fled you against costs?—Yes.
it
rather a
And your character was vindicated on that occasion also?--Yes.
Looking back at it, don't you call a dirty trick to wall for six weeks until this Issue comes over from America, the only issue sold at all, and then bring this action at once? We wrote to Selfridge's und I don't call it sporting not to answer and apologice.
PHONE MESSAGE
Mrs. Doris A. Lynch, of Glouces ter Place, S.W.. gave evidence that last May Dr. Hantstaengl telephoned her and sald, "If you are near a bookstall where you can buy a copy of the New Republic' I think it would interest you to see something in it about me." Slie went to Sel- fridge's and bought the paper.
Mr. Roberts, opening the defence, submitted that the action had no
merits.
"It is a purely artificial action," he said, "in which the plaintiff has manufactured the evidence of publi- cation, tricking and trapping Messrs. Selfridge to supply a month-old copy of a weekly paper in order that he may bring a claim, not apparently minding the publicity the case will
cause,
It is provoked by himself solely to make money."
The hearing was adjourned:
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