An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbook

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. — 2 —