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…interviews, and give to his calumnies a world-wide publicity. You cannot avoid moral responsibility for his dis- honourable abuse of the power which you have put into his hands. If you could not prevent his infamous libels, you are bound to redress the wrong as soon as it is pointed out to you. In putting into the hands of unscrupulous scoundrels the power to bring innocent persons, virtually defenceless, to starvation, youa Peer of the Realm, one of the chosen guardians of its public honour, a representative of the illus- trious traditions of…
1924 · PDF PAGE 9
…s 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 9
1924 · PDF PAGE 8
… 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 you by his pu- blishers, but neither acknowledgment nor reply was ever received by them or him. Instead on February 25 and March 4, the Sunday Express printed a grotesquely stupid narrative defaming his life at Cefalù, accompanied by insulting taunts to fill his purse by means of a libel suit. These new lies were …
1924 · PDF PAGE 5
man, or the man wrapped up in creative work, in taking legal action against a wealthy and power- ful corporation. To him a libel suit, even if not actually impossible, means, at the very least, financial chaos and the indefinite paralysis of his work. More than this, the libel, however false in point of fact, may be so damaging in purport, and make so unscrupulous an appeal to violent popular passions, that it robs its victim, in advance, of any of the normal means of redress. The man of letters is peculiarly ill-protected against sensational n…