FOREWORD by The Rt. Hon J.G.M. Compton Prime Minister In the unchanging laws of nature, a family, an organisation or a nation survives if, like a river, it constantly renews, refreshes and changes with changing times and circumstances; if it always attracts to itself the new and refreshing tributaries of energy, of thought and enterprise - always drawing new strength from these changes and these additions. Thus the Devaux family and the commercial firm of Minvielle and Chastanet with [...]