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come to England and compel full redress of this 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 pla…
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…s 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 publishing that lie in the first instance well knowing that he could not justify itand in silently maintaining it under challenge, your 14
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…September 1923. It is Mr. Crowleys magnum opus, and one of the most human and illuminating records ever written. It is that independent statement of positive truth which Newman rightly declared to be the only possible and proper defence against a vast mass of irresponsible and anonymous defamation. It is Mr. Crowleys real vindicationhis vindi- cation for all timeagainst any serious attack on his personal honour, whether as artist, patriot or man. The iniquity of the situation created by your editors abominable lies is glaringly shown by th…
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…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 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 compe…