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The literature on the subject seems to be growing all the time, and
our bibliographical survey, which we shall have to cut short at Christmas, 
has trouble keeping up with it. There seems to be very little, though, 
from the U.S.: are there any titles we are likely to have missed there ? 
(Yourself, Dow and Henle seem to be the only authors since 1952). What is 
quite amusing is the different slants of the various countries, particularly 
as revealed in their closing paragraphs. For instance: 

1) KK 2 (Ktistopoulos' new article in PLATON) :
···· We Greek owe many thanks to the foreign scholars who have applied
themselves with remarkable devotion to the laborous work of solving the
riddle of the script and language, in which are written the age-old records
of our ancestors found in the sacred soil of our Fatherland.

2) JL 1 (Lentsman's article in Voprosy Istorii, 1955:9)
The data from the Pylos and Knossos tablets completely support the
interpretation followed by Soviet science of the slave-based character
of Cretan and Mycenaean society at the time of its flowering, and once
again refute the modernizing prejudices still present in the works of
many bourgeois historians with regard to social condition in the Aegean
in the middle of the 2nd millenium BC.

Best wishes,

Michael


PS: From your reference to Fa1194 I see that the new Pylos
numbers are being accommodated to the 1952 system: no doubt this will
all be clear in Pylos Tablets II, which I hope is on the point of appearing.
Lejeure is all for a radical renumbering of all the linear B tablets, but
you can count on my support in squarling this suggestion?