Word: samoa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot help but admire the dignity and big mindedness displayed by the Americans in the manner in which they assumed the control of Eastern Samoa. . . . No threats, no bad names. . . . Everything goes on serenely. . . . So it should. "The Mau of American Samoa is jubilant over the turn of affairs. Headquarters for the Mau have been built. At the opening ceremony the Governor [Captain Graham] attended and presented the Mau with a flag." Embarrassed by the situation in Western Samoa was Britain's Labor Government last week. Three courses seemed open for the solution of this latest Empire problem: 1) Western...
Samoan nationalists have organized a Mau, a native League of Samoa, to further home rule. In the past eight years, every Samoan chief who has been at all outspoken in Man meetings has been exiled for from two to five years...
Last May another New Zealand plague ship was allowed to land at Apia, Western Samoa. Epidemic still rages among the susceptible natives. Over 1,000 have died...
...Smyth, patriotic Samoan merchant returned from a two-year exile incurred by asking embarrassing questions in 1928. Welcoming him at the dockside was a delegation of the Mau, and a watchful detachment of New Zealand constabulary. Leading cheers for the return of Al Smyth was the only survivor of Samoa's royal family, the High Chief Tamasese. In the excitement of the moment someone hit a constable by the name of Abraham on the head, with fatal results. There was a burst of gunfire. A moment later High Chief Tamasese and seven other Samoans lay dying in the dusty road...
Evidence that Western Samoans have turned envious eyes on their eastern brothers under the administration of U. S. Cap tain Graham in Pagopago was published by a potent spokesman for the Man, the N. Z. Samoa Guardian...