THE PORTSMOUTH DAILY TIMES

Portsmouth, Ohio, U.S.A.

3 July 1915

(page 17)

ALEISTER CROWLEY SUGGESTS TO

CHANGE PRUSSIAN BLUE TO RUSSIAN BLUE.

Referring to the banishment of Sir Edgar Speyer and Sir William Cassel, once King George’s confidential advisor from Crown Council and country on account of their German descent and the vengeance wreaked upon shopkeepers, cooks and valets in England and Canada, who happen to have a German name. Aleister Crowley, the poet, suggests to change Prussian Blue to Russian Blue, Edinburg to Edingrad and Middlesburg to Middlesgrad. He says: “They bar German music and refuse to buy German pianos. The little German band, the joy of our children and housemaids, has disappeared from our streets and instead of Lohengrin you hear the sweet strains of the dudelsack playing “Tipperary” from dawn to dusk. Animal lovers are writing to the papers to protest against the ill of the dachshund, because the Kaiser sports one. I wonder why they did not shoot children for having German measles and do away with spoons because they are made of German silver.”