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1 book written by Ray Kroc, and Behind The Arches was a book
2 written by John Love. But Fred Turner, who is now Senior
3 Chairman of the Board, instructed Mr. Love to take the
4 McDonald's story further, with all the warts and everything
5 that went with it. So, I think both of the books are very
6 interesting.
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8 You asked him: "Are you content for students to rely on
9 both of those books as an accurate factual portrayal of
10 McDonald's?"
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12 Answer: "I think so, sir."
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14 So that just confirms what you had said, anyway, that the
15 Behind The Arches book can be admissible as evidence and
16 relied upon as an authorised document.
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18 Can I just sum up Mr. Preston and malice, his personal
19 malice responsibility? He was involved with the Veggies
20 case; therefore, he knows that that the London Greenpeace
21 fact sheet, effectively, the circulation of it was
22 effectively accepted by McDonald's, and that only a very
23 small amendment in one section, only one section was
24 amended.
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26 He also knows the significance of its continued circulation
27 to this day.
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29 Secondly, he knows our legal case, he knows our beliefs, he
30 knows that we issued statements, myself and Ms. Steel,
31 outlining our genuine belief on all the issues. He knows
32 about all the witnesses that we planned to call. He cannot
33 tell the difference between truth and untruth generally,
34 unless extremely backed into a corner; and that, even
35 untruths -- and he knows, because he was challenged with
36 untruths in solicitors' letters sent to critics to get them
37 to cease criticisms.
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39 We say that he made up a motive for taking legal action
40 against London Greenpeace in 1989 in initiating legal
41 action, which was, he claimed, based upon the aims and
42 objectives of the London Greenpeace leaflet, which, the
43 evidence was, was not obtained by the Company until 1990.
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45 In any event, he fixated on some support in that document
46 for Animal Liberation Front, which we would say -----
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do you have a reference for it not being
49 obtained by the Company until 1990 -- because I did not
50 think it was at all as clear as that?
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52 MR. MORRIS: He said he thought he had seen it, but the only
53 document in the bundles was from later dates.
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55 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It may be, yes.
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57 MR. MORRIS: And I do not think he was 100 percent clear. But,
58 in any event, we would say the construction to be drawn,
59 the conclusion to be drawn from his evidence on this
60 matter, is that it was a line which he picked up as a way
