Crowley was expelled from Italian territory and 
deported to Tunis, despite a petition to Signor 
Mussolini, signed by all the leading citizens of 
Cefalù, protesting against such action.  No reason 
was given for this expulsion, nor was any charge 
preferred, but your editor is doubtless correct 
in claiming the event as the reward of his lies. 
The result was to reduce Mr. Crowley, who 
was convalescent at the time from a long and 
dangerous illness, to absolute destitution.  At 
seven days’ notice he was torn from his family, 
his library, and all the resources of his craft, 
and obligated to live in North Africa, from hand to 
mouth, with his life work indefinitely suspended 
and maimed.  It was more than ever impossible 
for him to refute efficiently the lies of the 
Sunday Express. 
 
7.  Circumstances led to my undertaking the 
task of coping with the desperate position into 
which Mr. Crowley’s family and dependants 
were thus suddenly thrown, a task which he 
himself—penniless, and broken in health—could 
not then even begin.  Thus I obtained first-
hand experience of the vile mischief that can 
be done to innocent and defenceless persons by 
such abuse of newspaper power as your editor 
has been guilty of.  I decided in the end, to 
put aside my own scientific work in order to 
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