THE DAILY EXPRESS

London, England

26 July 1933

(page 7)

MAGICIAN REFUSED AN INJUNCTION.

APPLICATION AGAINST ETHEL MANNIN FAILS.

An application for an interim injunction to stop further publication of Miss Ethel Mannin’s book, "Confessions and Impressions," was refused by Mr. Justice Farwell in the Chancery Division yesterday.

Mr. Aleister Crowley, the author, mountaineer, and magician, seeking the injunction, complained of certain passages in the book.

Mr. John W. Morris, for Miss Mannin, said she had filed an affidavit to the effect that Mr. Crowley knew, at the time of publication in 1930, that the book contained an allusion to him.

COCKTAIL PARTY

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, for Mr. Crowley, stated that his client denied that he knew anything about the book when it was published.

In refusing his injunction, Mr. Justice Farwell said there would be no order except that the costs be costs in the action in which Mr. Crowley was claiming damages for alleged libel.