New Caledonian Elections
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At An Early Date
From Our Own Correspondent
Noumea, Sept. 12.
ANEW decree has been promulgated re-establishing a New Caledonian Privy Council and a General Coun cil on an elective basis. The election date will be announced soon.
The new decree means the dissolution of the Sautot-nominated Administrative Council which, although only a wartime stop-gap, has nonetheless played a useful part. This stop-gap became necessary after Governor Sautot arrived here from the New Hebrides, because the Colony had lost faith in its former General Council around the time of the Vichy- German armistice in mid-1940.
Monsieur Berges and the other 11 members of the Administrative Council stood for an anti-Japanese and demo cratic New Caledonia, friendly with Aus tralia and New Zealand; and it was they who originated the request, which Gen eral de Gaulle subsequently presented to Washington, for a United States Consul at Noumea.