Understand Admiralty Reporting Officer Noumea [1] is informing you
of plan Sautot's arrival Thursday.

Meanwhile we have been asked by United Kingdom Government for
views on economic and financial assistance desirable to New
Caledonia after Sautot has been installed [2] in accordance with
undertaking given de Gaulle [3] in letter from Churchill 27th
August last. This promise was to effect that United Kingdom
Government would do everything in its power to maintain economic
stability of all French overseas territories provided they stood
by the Alliance and that United Kingdom Government was ready to
foster trade and help the administration of those parts of the
French Empire now cut off from France. Subject to needs of British
war effort, United Kingdom Government would be prepared to extend
economic assistance on a scale similar to that which it would
apply in comparable circumstances to colonies of British Empire.

Glad to have your observations as soon as possible on what further
measures in this connection might be required for New Caledonia.