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appoints and who will be responsible, the Republic having been proclaimed to take the appropriate steps. – I added: for my part I wish to develop the excavations entrusted to me at Enkomi-Alasia, the ancient capital of the country. We have in fact reached the point where we can systematically set about searching for the palace of the kings of Alasia where the diplomatic and historical archives should be, of which we have already found the first tablets, still undeciphered, and whose prodigious interest we can foresee for the archaeology and history of Cyprus and the Near East and south-eastern Europe in general. I raise the question whether the Republic of Cyprus should not associate itself with the work of resurrecting de sa capitale du IIe millénaire découverte par the French mission. This would be a first act of its national conscience and of its cultural responsibility. I propose to discuss this with him and Makarios, and only this when we meet again in next November. – 2) Ambassador Jorse, during a communi- at the Academy of Inscriptions gave us a sketch of a
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain