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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1958Vol. XXVIII, No. 7

The Writer

p. 73 · Read in the full issue

The man-and-woman writing team for the Swiss magazines “Sie and Er ” and “ITLlustre” and the French magazines “Paris Match’' and “L’Europe” did not get lost in the crowd, although 1957 was a bumper year in the SW Pacific for per ambulating journalists.

She was Katharina von Arx, tall dark and German. He was Freddy Drilhon, blond and French. They have both now re turned to Europe; but, before he went, Freddy Drilhon did this story for “PIM”.

The ideas are those of M.

Drilhon, and not necessarily those of the “PIM”. They are sufficiently steeped in acid and sufficiently close to the bone to, we anticipate, produce meta phorical hives amongst some of the indignant inhabitants of the Territories he visited.