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...Tell you how I look at it," said a U.S. radio commentator-thoroughly hep to his country's new position in the world-to a recently visiting Briton. "Guam is our chief base in the Pacific, and naturally we don't expect Guam to be selfsupporting. Now England, you see, is our chief base in Europe, and of course we've got to carry it-just like Guam...
...almost 50 years the simple, brown-skinned peoples of two early U.S. possessions in the Pacific-Guam and Samoa*-have lived in hope that some day they would be accepted in the family as U.S. citizens. The 22,000 Chamorros of Guam and 16,000 Polynesians of Samoa have been governed by men (Navy governors), not by law. Congress has never provided a constitution for either place. Classed only as "U.S. nationals," their peoples have had no inalienable Bill of Rights, no appeal to federal courts...
...Guam, captured from Spain in a bloodless operation by the cruiser Charleston, June 20, 1898, became a U.S. dependency under the Treaty of Paris, Dec. 10, 1898. Samoan Islands were partitioned between the U.S. and Germany by treaty in 1899. New Zealand now has the former German holdings...
...heat of the Southwest Pacific and Southeast Asia. Two teams of U.S. and Canadian Army doctors and scientists, seizing a ready-made opportunity to conduct one of the first big-scale studies ever made of white men in the tropics, examined thousands of U.S. and British soldiers on Guadalcanal, Guam, Iwo Jima, the Philippines, Burma. Findings...
...this week 26 more Marines had flown in from Guam, with flame throwers and 60-mm. mortars, to join the hunt. By day they crawled cautiously up Peleliu's tortured Bloody Nose Ridge, where the ist Marine Division had lost over 6,000 casualties just 30 months before. By night they established cossack posts to bushwhack guerrillas who sneaked out in search of food & clothing. There was one change from the first, historic assault landing on Peleliu. This time the Marine reinforcements jumped at the chance to move in "for experience and target practice...