Word: samoan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
Archibald Roosevelt, third son of the late great President, set out with two friends by night in a Samoan canoe to cross New York Bay from Staten Island. A steamer's wake capsized, a lighter rescued them...
...wisdom in not accepting a mandate over Armenia (which has since become a Soviet republic). Other mandates held by Britain are: Palestine, parts of German East Africa, Togoland and the Cameroons, Southwest Africa (held by the. Union of South Africa), German New Guinea (held by Australia), the Nauru and Samoan Islands (held by New Zealand...
...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...
...crisis occurred fortnight ago. One Alfred G. 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...