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…he 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 happens to be socially ill-protected, an unscrupulously untrue and in- decent campaign, which, judged by its effects, may be morally indistinguishable from murder. 3. …
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…records of the courts. Every reader assumes, therefore, without hesitation, that such an allegation, deliber- ately published, by a well-known paper, as an indictment, must be true. 9. Now you, my Lord, as proprietor of the Sunday Express, 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…
1924 · PDF PAGE 13
well-known to your editorthis infamous lie was quite strictly murderous : for a man may be done to death by venomous libels far less mercifully than by cruder poisons. 11. My Lord, you cannot escape the gravest personal responsibility in this matter. Your editor could not, with any private resour- ces of his own, undertake a protracted news- paper campaign of libel. It is your wealth, in particular, that he relies on when he challenges Mr. Crowley to fill his pockets by means of an action at law. It is your capital, in various kinds, that he u…
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…th 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 out that he was materially defenceless, at the time, against attacks in London, however false. He urged you, in your own interest no less than his, to insist on that measure of fair play which it was clearly in your power to giv…