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...Pacific more than halfway from Hawaii to New Zealand, in the latitude of Australia's northernmost tip. Some of the islands, including Upolu (on which Robert Louis Stevenson died), were once a German, have been since the War a New Zealand mandate. The eastern group-Tutuila, Aunuu, Ofu, Olosega, Tau and Rose-belong to the U. S. by an Anglo-German treaty of 1900. And in 1925 the U. S. annexed tiny Swain's Island. Total U. S. Samoa comprises 60 sq. mi., 8,763 population. It is valuable for a rich output of copra, also for Tutuila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: U. S. Dominion? | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

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