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1924 · PDF PAGE 12

An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbook

…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. 10. I do not doubt that you will attribute to these facts the same moral significance as every honest man will ; namely, that your editor is utterl…

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1924 · PDF PAGE 10

An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbook

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. Crowley’s 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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1924 · PDF PAGE 4

An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbook

… 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 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 —

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1924 · PDF PAGE 5

An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbook

…solute destitution. It may destroy his credit, in every kind, for a critical initial period ; and in the time that elapses before he can compel a hearing, the lie may have done its work, and wrought vital damage—both personally — 5 —

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