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…abominable injustice. In June of this year, I placed a statement of the case before Mr. James Douglas, the literary editor of the Sunday Express, who had initiated this campaign of calumny by printing, under his own name, a grossly vituperative review of Mr. Crowleys novel The Diary of a Drug Fiend. His article misrepresented the moral purpose of that work, as recognised in numerous reviews of it by men of letters in reputable journals : it was an orgie of salacity and, in essence, a lie. I placed a copy of this statement before the editoria…
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…: My Lord, I make this appeal to you as a Peer of the Realm an appointed guardian of its public honour and as proprietor of the Sunday Express, to redress a most grave and indefensible injury committed by that paper against the social honour, life, and work of an English gentleman and man of letters, and against the personal virtue of three very noble women who have renounced their private ambitions in order to help in his work. I. The case is as follows : Between November 1922 and March 1923, the Sunday Express published a series of sensa- …
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…e slaver, but he has never been even accused of any crime before any court in any country in the world. The statement made in the Sunday Express is thus an absolute lie ; your editor knows that it is a lie ; and you, my Lord, are in a position to satisfy yourself conclusively that it is a lie. I submit, that as proprietor of the Sunday Expressone of the greatest forces in the news- paper world, and in the public life of the nation you are under a clear obligation to ascertain the truth in this matter, and to compel your editor to publish it i…
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…g a public reply at all, or even allowing it to be known that his silence is enforced and not voluntary. 6. When the issue of the Sunday Express for November 26 reached Mr. Crowley in Sicily, he at once wrote to you himself. He pointed out that he was materially defenceless, at the time, against attacks in London, however false. He urged you, in your own interest no less than his, to insist on that measure of fair play which it was clearly in your power to give, and asked for an independent inquiry into the charges. The letter was forwarded to …
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…d 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 CROWLEYS 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
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…ation, deliber- ately published, by a well-known paper, as an indictment, must be true. 9. Now you, my Lord, as proprietor of the Sunday Express, can satisfy yourself, by a few minutes inquiry, that your editor is unable to specify the date or place of any such conviction. You can compel him to admit to you that he printed this, the most damaging libel conceivable, either without trying to verify it, or after failing to do so. You can satisfy yourself that he has not now, and never has had, one shred of evidence in support of his allegation. 1…
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…h 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. Crowleys family and dependants were thus suddenly thrown, a task which he himselfpenniless, and broken in healthcould 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 …
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…ondon, and was well under way, when at the end of October, Mr. Crowley left England for his home in Sicily. A fortnight later the Sunday Express commenced its campaign of lies by printing a biography 6