Word: samoa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring of 1942 a group of sailors were lolling on the gun deck of a transport at Samoa. One of them picked up a battered, coverless novel and began to read it aloud...
...Reason. Mitchell Paige, no cinema gyrene, was a quietly savvy guy. He neither smoked, drank, nor swore (his most rugged expletive was saved for the Japs: "damned slopeheads"). In Samoa he nursed a child through fever, was appointed by the natives as "Talking Chief"-tribal adviser...
...lived with Fatoia Tufele, king of a group of islands near Pago-Pago-and he still talks about the two beautiful damsels Fatoia provided to fan him as he sat dining on the hot porch of the king's palace. After that he went to Fiji, Tonga. British Samoa and on to China, where he worked three years on the China Press and the Shanghai Times-did special pieces for Reuters, the New York Times, Asia, Travel and the Christian Science Monitor when he wasn't too busy ducking Jap bombs. In 1936 he made a flying trip...
...favorite classmates, who isn't doing too well in disbursing, recently asked his instructor what billet the low man in the last class received. "Oh, nothing much," replied the amiable lieutenant. "He got a gasoline barge sailing between Samoa and the States!" Our friend is studying harder...
...Security. The primary aim was to establish a "permanent zone of interest" over an arc of islands stretching from Timor to Western Samoa. The great half-circle includes New Guinea, the Solomons, the New Hebrides. The Commonwealths down under want to make sure that an enemy will never again get as close to Australia as the Japanese did in 1942. Australia and New Zealand propose to police the area within the arc, pay part of the costs of a standing force if other interested nations will collaborate. Others affected: the U.S., The Netherlands, France, Portugal, Great Britain...