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1924 · PDF PAGE 1

An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbook

…sh gentleman and man of letters, and against the personal virtue of three very noble women who have renounced their private ambitions in order to help in his work. I. The case is as follows :— Between November 1922 and March 1923, the Sunday Express published a series of sensa- — I —

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1924 · PDF PAGE 14

An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbook

…as singled out from among his colleagues three ladies who have been noble and unselfish enough to renounce their professional careers in order to help in his work. These ladies are not British subjects, but your editor has identified them quite clearly to their professional, family, and private circles in England and America. He has been vile enough to accuse them, without one conceivable atom of justification, of practising public prostitution in foreign cities. “Whenever he needs money, and can- not get it from fresh victims, he sends them on…

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1924 · PDF PAGE 11

An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbook

… 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 fact, instantly felt by every reader, that makes this lie so dastardly. Every reader instinctively assumes that neither care- lessness …

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1924 · PDF PAGE 13

An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbook

…n 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 uses in order to collect anonymous gossip, purchase slanderous interviews, and give to his calumnies a world-wide publicity. You cannot avoid moral responsibility for his dis- honourable abuse of the power which you have put into his hands. If you could not prevent his infamous libels, you are bound to redress the wrong as soon as it is pointed out to you. In putting into the hands of unscrupulous scoundrels the power…

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1924 · PDF PAGE 9

An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbook

…persons by such abuse of newspaper power as your editor has been guilty of. I decided in the end, to put aside my own scientific work in order to — 9 —

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1924 · PDF PAGE 8

An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbook

individual obtain for his defence anything like the same order of publicity as the attack makes for itself. It may even happen, as the present case shows, that if the liar chooses his opportunity with care, and is not hampered with 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…

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