We called the agency Kulfoldi Hirek (Foreign News) and I hired an office for it on the Petofi Ter, a garden space on the Danube embankment with a fine monument to that great liberating poet. I can report without exaggeration that all this was slowly achieved, through 1940, in quite a satisfactory way. Meanwhile I prepared to open an agency for dissemination to the Magyar press of news received by wire from the Ministry of Information in London, and took orders to embark on illegal projects such as the printing and distribution of anti-Nazi leaflets.

This formulation looked properly menacing, for as yet I knew no Hungarian – but what are foreign languages, after all, except an irritation to be thrust aside? – and turned out to mean nothing more dangerous than ‘Central Savings Bank’.

So at the hopeful age of nearly 26 I entrained for Budapest, still quasi-neutral, and sat for a week or so looking across a boulevard at a startling neon sign which advertised the seat of Kozponti Takareki Penztar.

There was now a war on, said Taylor one would do as one was told. Major Grand’s Chief of Staff, the late George Taylor, who had come from Australia (it is very much that kind of story), was unimpressed when I objected that while I had sojourned in Yugoslavia, a manner of Katmandu for the dissident young of those remote times, I had never done so in Hungary, which was not, moreover, in ‘the Balkans’. I was duly enrolled after a pleasant lunch at Simpsons in the Strand with a man pretending to be a spy, and rapidly instructed to depart for Hungary ‘since you know the Balkans’. Most of these, as I know from my own joining in December of that year, arrived from merchant banks and oil companies others, like myself, from journalism: activities which have natural affinities with the trade of illusionism. Towards the close of 1939, the optimistic Lawrence Grand had rented a large flat near St James’s Street, handy for clubs and such, and called with discretion for recruits. Perhaps that is why, in the end, it succeeded so well, even if the end proved painfully long in coming. Building from zero resources, and no experience of what subversive warfare on a continent bunkered against all obvious access might in due course involve, would require an amateurism that was going to be much deplored, but which proved to be a very practical exercise in useful illusion. Today, on this calm afternoon in the Abbey, by suitable accident the 13th of the month, that distant project can seem in retrospect impossibly and even ludicrously ambitious although not much more so, I remember, than it did at the time. So it was proposed, and was going to be done. Fifty-eight years have passed since Major Lawrence Grand launched his ‘Section D’ in a niche of the old War Office, which had concluded, quite privately in the wake of the Munich sell-out of the Czechs, that a war with Hitler’s Germany would be unavoidable, in which case several European countries east of Germany would be overrun by the Wehrmacht, and steps should now be taken, even at these many minutes after midnight, to discover and support friends in those countries who might continue resistance – but the word came into use only with the thing itself – after invasion. It is fairly much a private occasion and has taken some time to come about: the wonder is that it has come about at all. It will be a memorial to the volunteers of our Special Operations Executive, otherwise forgotten, who were killed in action between 19, murdered by the enemy after capture, or failed to get home again. in the final room, beyond the Boss-room with Salazar.In the west cloister of Westminster Abbey a modest plaque is about to be unveiled.In the section just before the stairs down.It's unlikely that he's working alone, so there has to be a gathering of cultists somewhere in the area.Īnyone that tracks down Caspis to his hideout and puts him down will be justly rewarded with some of our scavenged materials.Ĭaspis has 2 spawn points within the Depraved Sanctuary. Reports have come in of Caspis capturing travelers out in the Burrwitch Outskirts. What is unfortunate is that he survived the Grim Dawn. It was no secret that Caspis was a blood-drinker and devout of Chthon.

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