Category: Archive
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Merry Christmas!
To the friends and supporters of hallidaysutherland.com – Merry Christmas! One-hundred years ago, Halliday, Muriel, Jane, John and Peter Sutherland spent their Christmas with the Damoclean sword of the Stopes v. Sutherland case hanging over their heads, though the children were probably too young to be told of or understand the implications of losing it.…
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The Ampleforth Journal’s review of “Exterminating Poverty”
I was very pleased to read a positive review of Exterminating Poverty in The Ampleforth Journal. How population growth and poverty interrelate remains hotly contested. This absorbing study of a landmark 1923 libel case between contraception enthusiast Marie Stopes and Dr Halliday Sutherland vividly depicts a culture in turmoil – channelled through the ordered passion…
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Stand to!
This 220th article comes nine years after the first was published on 6 April 2014. Back then, there was little or no information about Dr Halliday Sutherland on the Internet other than nonsensical speculation and some industrial-strength lies, so I set up this website to improve the situation. My aim was to make accurate information…
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“All is Beauty”
The eugenists and the Malthusians continue their work today at the speed of science. They are opposed by those who prize the natural freedom of humanity. In the context of the Stopes v. Sutherland libel trial, the ideas of the population controllers were manifested in Malthusianism, Neo-Malthusianism, eugenics, contraceptives, voluntary sterilization, compulsory sterilization of the…
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Stopes v. Sutherland libel trial: What happened next?
Dr Halliday Sutherland’s legal victory in the High Court was short-lived. Stopes appealed and the Court of Appeal reversed the decision of the High Court in July 1923. Dr Sutherland and his co-defendant, publisher Harding & More, sought leave to appeal to the House of Lords, then Britain’s highest court. In November 1924, they won…