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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1959Vol. XXIX, No. 11

Viet Question

p. 23 · Read in the full issue

Solved?

New Caledonia’s Senator Henry Lafleur was reported in Noumea in May as saying that the question of repatriating New Caledonia’s unwanted Viet namese had just about been solved, thanks mainly to his in tervention in Paris, plus local support. He said it was “practic ally certain” a ship load of Viets would leave Noumea before the end of the year.

The attitude of New Caledoni ans, who have heard all this before, was still, “We’ll believe it when we see it!”