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black picture of the situation of the French Archaeological Mission in Tunisia, but a picture which in my view is accurate. My colleagues at the Institute are trying, by changing heads of to satisfy the Tunisians. That would be in vain. They have removed from our Mission all authorisation to work on the ground, and the latter lies dormant, and this dormancy costs dearly to France. The Tunisians no longer want a Mission Française, nor a Institut Français, according to Joxe. - The Commission has not led to any positive proposals. I have thought it over and believe I must make the proposal that I set out to Joxe in the letter of which a copy is enclosed. I would have liked to speak to you about it earlier. But you were impossible to catch. And I know that the Ambassador wanted to resume the negotiations as soon as he returned. - What do you think of my idea? -
3) You remember that the President of the Institut Archéologique Central Allemand at Berlin and Bonn in the person of its president proposed to me in Paris: 1) an archaeological collaboration to train young German archaeologists on my area at R.S. and Cyprus and with other French Missions; 2) possibly to accept the creation of a German Archaeological Institute at Damascus, but which would not be directed against us and our Institute under
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