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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1952Vol. XXII, No. 11

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p. 44 · Read in the full issue

New French Envoy

OF interest to French residents in the Pacific is the announcement from Paris that M. Noel Henry has been appointed Envoy Extraordinary

and Minister Plenipotentiary for France in New Zealand, in succes sion to M. Emanuel Lancial, who was recalled to France last Septem ber. Meanwhile, Baron Andre de Fonscolombe, Charge d’Affaires, is in charge of the French Legation at Wellington.

M. Henry is 54, and is Officer of Legion of Honour. He recently has been Director of the Political Sec tion of the Institute of High Studies of National Events and War Economy.