tional articles in which it claimed, from a motive 
of public duty, to reveal the truth about the life 
and work of Aleister Crowley, explorer, drama-
tist, poet, philosopher and artist. 
These articles were a mass of lies. 
Not only were they wholly false in spirit—
the essential truth, in every matter of importance, 
being simply suppressed—but, except for such 
statements as were harmless in themselves or 
trivial, they were wholly false in the letter also. 
Two of these lies are so indefensible in point 
of fact, and so repugnant to every principle 
of decency and fair play. that they must, in the 
public interest and for the honour of the British 
Press, be destroyed once for all. 
 
2.  In the Sunday Express of November 26, 
1922, the following appears :— 
 
ALEISTER CROWLEY’S ORGIES IN SICILY 
.   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   . 
 
WOMEN VICTIMS 
 
     Three women he keeps there perman-
ently for his orgies.  All of them he 
brought from America two or three years 
ago.  One is a French-American gover-
ness, one is an ex-schoolmistress, and one 
a cinema actress from Los Angeles. 
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