内容摘要：The navy agreed to add time to his service record so that he received a military pension in addition to the state pension.

The navy agreed to add time to his service record so that he received a military pension in addition to the state pension.

The photos and story appear in Towns' new book, the Wilder Shores of Dylan Thomas."I got this letter out the blue from a woman who said her mother had worked at Strand Films and straight away I knew how important it was," he said, explaining how it was the only time Thomas had "a proper job with a salary".

Thomas definitely worked at Strand he said, because one of his friends, Julian MacLaren-Ross, wrote about it a book."He writes about what they got up to at the [Strand] office, so everything rang true," he said."Plus I know that [Thomas] was forever living from hand to mouth," he said of the Swansea-born writer, who had a wife and two children to support at the time.

"So the guy was desperate for money and obviously when he went in he thought he was going to trouser a few quid to get through the next few days."Even just to get to the pub that night.

"When it wasn't there, he flipped."

Originally from east London, Towns has been antiquarian book dealer for more than 50 years and currently runs Dylans Bookstore in Swansea.Nonetheless, the move has led to criticism from Democrats as well as some long-time Trump supporters, including Laura Loomer who said: "This is really going to be such a stain on the admin if this is true."

Several senior Democrats have claimed that accepting the gift would be illegal.Democratic Senator Adam Schiff

that said no elected official could accept "any present... of any kind whatever" from the leader of a foreign state without congressional approval.Frank Cogliano, a professor of American history at the University of Edinburgh, says this clause "was intended to prevent bribery to influence the government".