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1924 · PDF PAGE 15

An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbook

…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 Lordship’s obedient servant, Norman MUDD, M.A., Cambridge : sometime Scholar of Trinity College. Late Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, Grey University College, South Africa. 37a Tressilian Road, Brockley, London, S.E.4, August, 1924. — 15 —

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1924 · PDF PAGE 11

An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbook

…nce 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 criminal conviction is a matter of public record, and such an allegation as your editor has made is capable of rigorous proof or disproof, like any other matter of officially recorded public history. It is this obvious…

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1924 · PDF PAGE 10

An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbook

…unday Express, pointing out that the assertion that Mr. Crowley had served a prison sentence (in America or else- where, whether for the crime alleged or for any other offence) was demonstrably untrue, and asking simply for the full and frank withdrawal of that particular lie. At the same time I sent you privately a full statement, supported by documents, not only refuting your editor’s calumnies, but containing sufficient positive truth concerning Mr. Crowley’s life and work to prove that the case put forward by the Sunday Express was as false…

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1924 · PDF PAGE 4

An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbook

…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 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 Express—one of the greatest forces in the news- paper world, and in the public life of the nation— you are under a clear obliga…

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