on April Fool’s Day
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Hard to Remember on April Fool’s Day
After a couple of false starts, representatives of the Press in Lae, New Guinea, made one last effort and succeeded in seeing Mr. Chiping H. C. Kiang before his departure for Wewak.
Catching him at Qantas be fore breakfast, and certainly a bit early, we asked him about the report that New Britain natives had told the delegates that “America should take the trusteeship, because Australians were making fools of the natives”.
With a masterly look of con centration, he said, “I do not remember—I do not remember”.
He added, “So many things are said that are unimportant, you understand. It is hard to remember everything.” We agreed with him —we know our natives and their thinking capacity—bid him a happy journey and carried on with our daily grind.
It was not until a couple of days later when we got the full report of what the Nakanai natives had said to Mr. Kiang that we remembered that the day that we interviewed him was
April 1.
P.R.