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an installation allowing the handling, sorting and restoration of this quantity of material for which the Director of Antiquities, despite all his goodwill, cannot find room in the Museum and its annexes in Nicosia. – In any case, given these expenses to which I shall ask the CNRS to contribute, I would be grateful if you would provide for a substantial increase in the credit for Enkomi-Alasia, in 1964, as requested in my earlier estimates.
Today, I have the pleasure of asking you to read to the Academy at its sitting of Friday 11 inst. the letter enclosed as an annex "concerning the correspondence", it is relating to a discovery which took place the day before yesterday and which must be communicated to the local press and the agency to the Reuther at the request of the Director of Antiquities of the island, on Saturday 12 October. He considers that it is impossible, given the indiscretions to be feared, to keep the secret any longer. So that the French press may be informed at the same time, I enclose a copy of this communiqué, and I would be grateful if you would have typed 5 or 6 copies, of which 3 intended for the journalists of the Institute who attend the following sittings, one to the Agence France Presse and one to DARSIE-GILLIE, the best of journalists and friend whom you know / without
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