re:
> We're speaking here of 1947, post-war Europe, when few people had money.
> What documentation is there to suggest Gardner could afford to pay an
> enormous sum of money?
GG had retired as a plantation manager, which was ostensibly a Civil Service
post, thus with a pretty decent pension, just becuase of a war it doesn't
mean all money evaporated
and
> Kenneth Grant was involved some years earlier.
> KG joined AC when Crowley left London during the Blitz.
> Grant stayed 6 months with Crowley as secretary until the Blitz eased up.
the Blitz was largely 1940-41, after which the air superiority lay with the
English, a few hundred German V2 missiles aside
> Only Kenneth Grant asserts this. No documentation to support this claim.
>
there is a Crowley quote somewhere in AC's own late writings, mine are all
in boxes so cannot give location
dave e
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