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...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...
...Filariasis, a worm infestation, not usually deadly, but bad for morale. Some marines in Samoa got it. In a man's blood, the filariae become very slim worms from one to two inches long, may do little harm; but if they plug lymph-gland ducts, may cause elephantiasis (huge swellings) in scrotum or legs. For some unknown reason the filariae rarely appear in the circulating blood except between the hours of 9 p.m. and 2 a.m. The larvae are carried by ordinary U.S. mosquitoes. As there is no cure for the disease, the only recourse is mosquito control...
Australia-born Essie Lee went to Melbourne University, lived all over Australia, visited New Zealand, Samoa, the Fijis and many of the other important Pacific islands, moved on to Mexico before she came to TIME...
Regarding the picture entitled "Marines in Kilts" (TIME, May 10), your informant neglected to make a distinction between the two native military organizations in American Samoa. The natives in the picture are "Samoan Marines," not "Fitas." The Fita-Fita Guard and Band is a part of the U.S. Navy and was organized at the naval station in 1904. . . . The First Samoan Battalion, Marine Corps Reserve, as the name implies, is a part of the Marine Corps and was organized in the summer...
...Marine Barney Ross, 33, onetime world's lightweight and welterweight champion who recently racked up ten Japs at Guadalcanal: a boxing match against a native heavyweight champion of Samoa; by a knockout in the sixth round after flooring the 215-pounder eleven times; in Samoa. For a prize, the local chief offered Barney his daughter. Barney declined...