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…t nor reply. 8. Such persistent silence, whatever its explan- ation, compels me to bring the essential issue to your notice in this more public matter. Your editor asserts that Mr. Crowley has served a prison sentence in America for pro- curing young girls for infamous purposes. The truth is that Mr. Crowley has never been so much as accused of any crime before any court in any country in the world. Now no honest person can pretend for a mo- ment that any legal process is needed in order to expose the absoluteness of this particular lie. A crim…
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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 suppressedbut, 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 …
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…various kinds, that he uses in order to collect anonymous gossip, purchase slanderous 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 chos…
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editor has proved himself as great a coward as he is a liar. It is an intolerable outrage on the decency of English public life that this cad, backed by your wealth, should have the licence to publish to the whole world filthy libels against the personal virtue of noble women. A Baron of England, accessory after the fact to so foul and mean a crime ? I have the honour to be, Your Lordships obedient servant, Norman MUDD, M.A., Cambridge : sometime Scholar of Trinity College. Late Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, Grey University College, South A…
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…O O K To the Right Honourable Lord Beaverbrook : 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, t…
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…ate circles in England and America. He has been vile enough to accuse them, without one conceivable atom of justification, of practising public prostitution in foreign cities. Whenever he needs money, and can- not get it from fresh victims, he sends them on the streets of Palermo or Naples to earn it for him. He served once a prison sentence in America for procuring young girls for a similar pur- pose. The last of these statements is a demonstrable lie, but it serves to make the first statement the more hurtful, gross and abominable. 13. In …
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…constitutes a menace of unprecedented gravity against the life and work of every individual citizen, and against the very foundations of public morality. The allegation that a man has been imprisoned as a white slaver is as vitally damaging as any that can be made. 3
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…nest man will ; namely, that your editor is utterly irresponsible and unscrupulous, devoid of any proper regard for truth, fair play, or public morality. Considering the circumstances in which Mr. Crowley was placed at the timecircumstances 12
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…ationalism. The present case shows how a man of letters, unprotected by this right of reply, can be sub- jected by a newspaper editor to public foul-play of the most atrocious and murderous kind. 5. At the beginning of July 1922while Mr. Crowley was still living in London, and months before this campaign of lies was mooted he signed a contract with his publishers for the writing and production of his autobiography. This was commenced in London, and was well under way, when at the end of October, Mr. Crowley left England for his home in Sicily…
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…e to justice is grave almost beyond precedent. A lie so base and hurtful must be withdrawn at once, frankly and fully, with all possible publicity. To deny the absolute right of truth and justice to be instantly vindicated in the matter must be repugnant to your sense of honour. Not only has Mr. Crowley not served a prison sentence in America as a white 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…
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individual obtain for his defence anything like the same order of publicity as the attack makes for itself. It may even happen, as the present case shows, that if the liar chooses his opportunity with care, and is not hampered with a sense of decency or fair play, his victim may be cut off from any chance at making 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…