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Margin top: (letter from Lapierre) of 15.3.59.
Pardigon, by Cavalaire s/mer (Var), 31. 3. 59. (back at St. Germain en L., 4 April). a/s. Cyprus. My dear Director and Friend, the enclosed letter from our consular agent in Cyprus, recalls to you our recent conversation. One of Makarios's confidants has, in fact, let me know the pleasure felt in the team forming the Gouvernement of the Republic of Cyprus (from next year) that our cultural action be amplified to respond to the current of particular sympathy that is directed towards us from this country where our Crusaders were established and have already made an imperishable work. There is obviously also the desire henceforth to escape, as far as possible, from the action of the British Council, which will try to hold on. Without doing harm to our English friends, we could and, it seems to me, we should strengthen our position culturally in this outpost of Europe facing the Asian world, where we meet so many difficulties for the moment. – There will be many forms and means to reach the goal and to satisfy our friends in the future independent Cyprus. And I will permit myself to submit to you some ideas when I have received the reaction of Makarios himself, to whom I have just written on the advice of my friend. – But I permit myself
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