Vice-President
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No Riots But A New
The anniversary on June 18 of General de Gaulle's call to arms in 1940 was marked in Noumea this year again with military ceremony at the war memorial—but it was in a far different strain from last year’s cere mony, which ended in near-riots in an endeavour to overthrow the local Government.
“PlM’s” Noumea correspondent says public interest was “extremely cool” and only a couple of hundred people attended. This was looked on, he said, as an indication of much greater political stability in New Caledonia.
In fact an Indigenous person charming, cultured Michel Kauma, was elected the same day to the post of Vice-President of the Council of Ministers, in place of M. Maurice Lenormand, who resigned following his re-election as a Deputy of New Caledonia. M. Kauma is noted as a first-rate orator.