THE YORKSHIRE EVENING POST

Leeds, Yorkshire, England

25 July 1933

(page 8)

BOOK BY MISS ETHEL MANNIN.

ANOTHER AUTHOR COMPLAINS.

Judge Refuses to Grant an Interim Injunction.

Mr. Justice Farwell, in the Chancery Division to-day, refused to grant an interim injunction to stop further publication of Miss Ethel Mannin’s book “Confessions and Impressions.”

Mr. Aleister Crowley, the author, seeking the injunction against Jarrolds Publishers (London), Ltd., William Brendon and Sons, Ltd., printers, and Mrs. Ethel Edith Porteous (Ethel Mannin) complained of certain passages in the book.

Mr. C. Gallop (for the plaintiff) said the defendants took the point that the book was published as long ago as May, 1930, and that Mr. Crowley knew of its publication at that time. Mr. Crowley denied that allegation, and said the passages of which he complained were without foundation.

Mr. John W. Morris (for Miss Mannin), said she had filed an affidavit that Mr. Crowley knew at the time of publication that the book contained an allusion to him. She said she accepted his invitation to a cocktail party, at which he was perfectly friendly, and made no protest against anything which she had written, and did not ask her to withdraw or alter anything.

Mr. Gallop said that Mr. Crowley, in his reply, reiterated his denial that he knew anything at all about the book at the time it was published.

Mr. Justice Farwell said it was a case in which he could not grant an injunction on the motion. There would be no order except that the costs be costs in the action in which Mr. Crowley was claiming damages for alleged libel.