THE ABERDEEN PRESS AND JOURNAL

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

4 February 1930

(page 6)

OXFORD LECTURE BAN.

An extraordinary situation has arisen in connection with the Oxford University Poetry Society.

A meeting had been arranged for last night to be addressed by Mr. Aleister Crowley on the subject of the mediaeval magician, but at the last minute the lecture was cancelled.

The secretary of the society sent a letter to Mr. Crowley explaining that the lecture had been cancelled as it had “come to our knowledge that if your proposed paper is delivered disciplinary action will be taken, involving not only myself, but the rest of the members of the society,”

Sandwichmen paraded the streets yesterday announcing that the lecture [The Banned Lecture] would be printed and on sale to-day.