UNITED STATES CONSUL
CHANGE IN NEW CALEDONIA Noumea, Dec. 9. The United States Consul-General, Mr. K. de G. MacVitty, America’s man behind the scenes in Noumea since early in 1941, has arrived in Washington, where he has been transferred for duty with the State Department. His successor, Mr. Henry B. Day, for five years Consul in Sydney, has been in New Caledonia for some time. Mr. MacVitty was a good friend of the New Caledonian people. He and the United States Consul in Fiji were appointed at a time when Japanese designs on the South-west Pacific were already obvious. In Mr. MacVitty’s case a request for the appointment of a Noumea Consul came from the Administrative Council and Governor Sautot. and was passed on to Washington by General de Gaulle. Mr. MacVitty has travelled widely. He was at Oxford University when the 1914-18 war broke out, and when he could not get into the British Army he joined the French Air Force. His fighting career ended with a bad crash in no-man’s-land.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 307, 30 December 1942, Page 3
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172UNITED STATES CONSUL Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 307, 30 December 1942, Page 3
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