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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Henri Birven
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[28 December 1929]
I knew Reuss [Theodor Reuss] pretty well in a sort of way. He was not so bad once one had called his bluff, and if he did not know many things, he at least knew one thing of supreme importance to science, although he had not investigated it as well as one can desire. And though he was, no doubt, a very stormy petrel, from the political point of view, I do not think that is necessarily altogether against him. He served his country loyally, as far as I can make out, in the way for which his talents best fitted him. And in certain respects I don't think he was fairly treated. He never complained , and took it all as part of the game. I could never make out why he had such a bad reputation in Germany.
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