D'argenlieu For Indo-China
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rAT famous non-Vichy Frenchman, Armiral Therry d’Argenlieu, has gone to the East as Governor of Indo-China.
He will be remembered in the Pacific as the high official who cleaned up the troubled political situation in Tahiti in 1941, and dismissed the Governor of New Caledonia, Henri Sautot, in 1942. Sautot in the black days of 1940, was the first French Colonial Governor to declare for de Gaulle. D’Argenlieu returned to Europe in 1942 and took a prominent part in the liberation of France.