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The Papuan Achievement

By Lewis Lett

Reviewed By Robert Gale Woolbert

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The Papuan Achievement

By Lewis Lett

204 pp, Melbourne University Press in association with Oxford University Press, 1942

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The story of how Britain and Australia have discharged their colonial responsibilities in southeastern New Guinea.

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