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July 25th Dear Jack, thank you for sending me your April Anthology. It reached me just before we left for a few weeks rest in Normany (Apparently it took more than a month from Moberly to Paris). It's interesting the re-reading of this American proletarian literature of the 30's. this evocation of the depression years in the stated--in particular of the first years, when the American public would say, as you recall; "Just disregard the Depression and maybe it'll go away", apply very well to the situation in France right now--Drastic economical and financial measures are required, but nobody will have courage enough to take them--and certainly not Giscard d'Estaing, who has been elected president with so small a majority and cannot rely on the public opinion. Anyway, it's not only a French crisis, it's international. A regime crisis, the crisis of capitalism, of profit production, of "la société de consommation"--