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… 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 of decency and 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 …
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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
1924 · PDF PAGE 3
… Palermo or Naples to earn it for him. He served once a prison sentence in America for procuring young girls for a similar purpose. Both statements are absolute lies. The first falsely and wantonly accuses identifi- able women of being enslaved prostitutes. The second falsely and wantonly accuses a well-known man of letters of being a proved felon. Taken together, they show that anonymous scoundrels, backed by the resources of a great newspaper organisation, canin fact, as distinct from legal fictionfreely direct, against any man or woman who…
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…ter, and to compel your editor to publish it in such a way as to redress the wrong wrought by his foul lie. 4. His plea that, unless his statements had all been correct, Mr. Crowley would have sued the paper for libel immediately, is a base and cynical attempt to ignore the evident disabilities of every kind which beset the absentee, the poor 4