Actually, if the local council don't seize the moment and put "It was an awful place. I shall never return" in mirror writing on the back of the Welcome To Newhaven signs, then they're missing a trick.
Never mind international relations or some nobody local councillor's wrath.
Ho Chi Minh worked on the bloody Newhaven Dieppe ferry! Why is this not more widely known? It's like discovering Fidel Castro once had a part time job on the Palace Pier ghost train. This is by far the greatest fact...