THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

13 July 1950

(page A5)

YESTERYEAR IN THE TIMES.

THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.

NEW YORK—At 4:32 a.m. Aleister Crowley, an Irishman and a poet, rose up in a launch floating a few feet from Bedloe’s Island and proclaimed the independence of Ireland and war on England. Then he tore up his British passport.