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Lofty, lovely and fertile are the valleys of the Samoa Islands, which lie in the South 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...
Some witnesses advised making Samoa a part of Hawaii Territory, others violently opposed this. Most witnesses agreed with a letter to the commission from a committee of Samoan chiefs which declaimed: "Navy rule must cease!" Student Nelson Samoa Tuiteleleapaga of the University of Hawaii described how Navy officers permitted sailors to marry Samoan girls, then to leave them behind on sailing away. Few agreed with that part of the chief's letter which read: "A million and a half dollars must be appropriated for the establishment of the Samoan government. The education of the Samoan people is sufficient...
Victor Steuart Kaleoaloha Houston, Hawaii's (voteless) delegate to Congress, said: "American Samoa cannot be made into a State. It cannot be made into an incorporated Territory, as it is impractical to apply many Federal laws there. A special form of government, such as Do Dominion status, would be necessary...
...solar eclipses: "Tin Can Island" on Oct. 21. This island, Niuafou, one of the Tonga group, is so called because mail is thrown from passing steamers in tin cans which native swimmers gather up. Since "Tin Can Island" is located in the South Pacific volcano belt near Fiji and Samoa, the astronomers may expect their instruments to be shaken by temblors which jostle the island almost daily...
...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...