Word: saipan
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...Family Tradition." Republican Dillingham comes by his conservatism naturally. His family amassed a huge fortune in everything from construction to railroads and docks to shopping centers. Ben Dillingham himself got into politics after World War II service in the Army (he won a Bronze Star in the Saipan invasion) as a member of the Honolulu board of supervisors, has put in eight years (1949-57) as a member of the territorial senate, recently served as Republican county chairman on Oahu...
Rota. Truk, Yap, Saipan, Koror, Ponape, Majuro . . . The Marshalls, Carolines and Marianas; they could be the names of seven Pekingese dogs and the families who own them. Actually these islands and archipelagoes (comprising 2,134 other islands and atolls) in the Western Pacific sun make up Micronesia-a tractable, tropical dreamland that the U.S. is not quite sure what to do with. They are the spoils of war, won from the Japanese at the cost of thousands of U.S. lives...
...even a town, Cloar has been recording the story of his part of the South almost all his life. Though neither his parents nor his sister nor his three brothers ever seemed to notice, he began drawing before he could write. During the war he painted mascots (girls) on Saipan bombers, at $50 apiece, later made a young artist's pilgrimage to South America and Europe. But one day in Venice, he decided that home was where he belonged...
...right about the quick victories (Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines), wrong about being able to get a quick peace. As the fortunes of war worsened, he reacted just as had his Choshu clansmen in the affair of Shimonoseki Strait. At a Cabinet meeting in April 1944 he told Tojo: "Saipan is Japan's lifeline. If Saipan falls, surrender. It is the silliest thing on earth to keep fighting after that." Tojo shouted angrily: "Don't poke your nose into the affairs of the supreme command!" Thirteen days after the bloody U.S. conquest of Saipan, Tojo's Cabinet...
...student with an ROTC Army commission, switched to the Marines. He married his childhood sweetheart, Zola De Haven (they have two grown children), stood peacetime duty on a dozen posts from Peiping to Iceland. In World War II he saw combat on Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Saipan, Tinian...