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From pontoon gear, the Navy's all-purpose "mechano" set, they have built landing barges, floating drydocks, piers, floats for cranes to transform the sleepy, down-at-heel French colonial port of Noumea, New Caledonia, into one of the Navy's greatest advance bases...
From French New Caledonia last week came ugly charges against U.S. troops-first time such an indictment has been made officially against U.S. soldiers in this war. Governor Christian Laigret declared that Negro troops have attacked New Caledonia's women "even in the company of their husbands and brothers...
Magic Carpet. In a four-motor Liberator-type transport, the junketing Senators flew to the British Isles, to Casablanca, to Marrakech, Cairo, Basra and Calcutta, to Chungking (where they met China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek), to Australia, Guadalcanal (three days), and homeward via New Caledonia, the Fiji Islands, Honolulu and San Francisco...
...eternal racial antagonism. Japan, he insists, is "America's enemy for all time." Japan will never forgive defeat, and there will never be a "common ground of ethical beliefs" for the two countries. Consequently, America must take under her "full and unequivocal" administration such bases as Singapore, New Caledonia, Cam Ranh Bay, Penang. A "tradition of [American] political activity" must be created south of the Chinese coast ports...
...maintenance of morale, the Red Cross has discovered it is the little things that count-the piano set up in an old auto showroom in Algiers, the county-fair smell of hamburgers rising amid the Oriental smells of New Delhi, the Wild West movies in the jungles of New Caledonia. Morale, too, means keeping in touch with home. Has the sergeant's baby been born? The Red Cross will find out. Did the Corporal forget his sister's birthday? The Red Cross will send a message...