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...extraordinary courage, his able, if not brilliant, leadership. It was largely through him that the present Reform Party, which has a relative majority over the other parties, survived its earlier vicissitudes. He was a convinced imperialist-the man who urged the Allies to deprive Germany of the Samoa Islands, whose voice was loud in the councils of the Commonwealth...
...Passed a Senate resolution extending U. S. sovereignty to Swain's Island, about 200 miles northeast of American Samoa. The island is owned by an U. S. citizen, Alexander Jennings, is a mile wide and a mile and a half long, has about 70 inhabitants including 40 children. (Went to the President.) ¶ Adopted a Senate resolution providing for the completion of the historic frieze in the rotunda of the Capitol. (Went to the President.) ¶ Adopted a Senate resolution providing that donations "of the best specimens of early American furniture and furnishings" be accepted...
...Next June, the U. S. Fleet is to hold maneuvers in Hawaiian waters, after which 12 battleships, 4 cruisers, 36 destroyers will journey to Samoa, New Zealand, Australia and back to Hawaii in a two month's cruise. (TIME...
They will leave Honolulu on July 1 and visit Pagopago (Samoa), Auckland and Wellington (N. Z.), Sydney and Melbourne (Australia), returning to Honolulu on Sept. 10. The fleet will be by far the must powerful U. S. Armada which has ever plowed the waters surrounding the sixth Continent, considerably outweighing the fleet which Robley D. ("Fighting Bob") Evans took around the world in Roosevelt's time...
Stevenson's love of pose, his affectations, his theatric sense Mr. Steuart sees again in his last days in Samoa, as a sort of white chief, a lord of the manor among the admiring natives. "A bouncing egotist who loves the limelight as a beachcomber loves rum," said his neighbors...