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envisage is two institutions: one for general culture, like the Institut Français d' Athènes, and another Archaeological, like the Institut Français d' Archéologie de Beyrouth. Needless to emphasize the benefit for all of us. You are the most suitable person to take up this matter. I hope you will write to the Archbishop. He is a great personality, has a broad mind, and his ambition is to make Cyprus the Cultural Centre of the Near East. Write to him in French – I repeat that you may use my name if I can be of. any help for giving supplementary information –. His address, of course is Sa Beatitude l' Arch. Makarios, Nicosie.
– May I finally thank you for your invitation to participate in 1959's Exc. at Enkomi as a private archaeologist for a month. How much I would have liked to! But this means asking for leave for one month, and this will leave me with only 12 days leave left, if I will ask for the CNRS bourse! I am looking forward to the day when co-operation with foreign archaeologists will be looked upon favourably and not with
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