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…he truth about the life and work of Aleister Crowley, explorer, drama- tist, poet, philosopher and artist. These articles were a mass of lies. Not 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 h…
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… given for this expulsion, nor was any charge preferred, but your editor is doubtless correct in claiming the event as the reward of his lies. The result was to reduce Mr. Crowley, who was convalescent at the time from a long and dangerous illness, to absolute destitution. At seven days notice he was torn from his family, his library, and all the resources of his craft, and obligated to live in North Africa, from hand to mouth, with his life work indefinitely suspended and maimed. It was more than ever impossible for him to refute efficiently …
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…us and murderous kind. 5. At the beginning of July 1922while Mr. Crowley was still living in London, and months before this campaign of lies was mooted he signed a contract with his publishers for the writing and production of his autobiography. This was commenced in London, and was well under way, when at the end of October, Mr. Crowley left England for his home in Sicily. A fortnight later the Sunday Express commenced its campaign of lies by printing a biography 6
1924 · PDF PAGE 7
…ious 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 the fact that Mr. Crowleys publishers, despite their complete sympathy and good will, feel unable, for the time being, to proceed with the publication of the work. They state that the book trade and the big libraries, in England and abroad, will boycott the book, from the start, unless the specific lies, here denounced, are first destroyed, once for all. The whole event illustrates …
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…rn 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 happens to be socially …
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…uely stupid narrative defaming his life at Cefalù, accompanied by insulting taunts to fill his purse by means of a libel suit. These new lies were reprinted, in part, by various Italian newspapers, though not by the Sicilian journals ; and at the end of April Mr. 8