South Sea Echo

Out of the pacific South Seas last week came a faint echo of Europe's thundering wars. The scattered islands of New Hebrides (off the east coast of Australia), which owe allegiance to Britain & France jointly, repudiated the Government of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain in Vichy, pledged their resources and man power to the "free France" of General Charles de Gaulle in London. In nearby French-owned New Caledonia, where Governor Marie-Marc-Georges Pelicier has offered his allegiance to the Petain Government, the local assembly declared its intention of continuing the war under General de Gaulle. With the Japanese just over the horizon and already in Indo-China (see p. 35), the New Hebrides and New Caledonia wanted what protection there still was in being an ally of Great Britain.

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