Word: statehooder
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...statehood bill, said he, guarantees "Harry Bridges fwo seats in the Senate and two in the House . . . Statehood at this time would only serve to deliver the Hawaiian state government to the Communist Party on a silver platter...
Last week the House of Representatives defeated the bill for Hawaiian-Alaskan statehood after a loud-voiced, low-swinging debate. Loudest and lowest was New York's Republican Representative John Pillion, who discovered that anti-Communism can be used to justify almost any political action...
Pillion has never been to Hawaii-and does not intend to go. He recently explained to the House Rules Committee that he fears Hawaiian hospitality would make him change his mind about statehood. But he nonetheless considers himself something of an expert on the subject. Said he to a newsman last week...
...Heard New York's Democratic Congressman James J. Delaney attack Hawaiian statehood before the Rules Committee on the ground that Hawaii is a volcanic area. Said he: "Just suppose a whole island was eliminated. They would still have their two U.S. Senators...
...Statehood. The President promised that Alaska should expect to achieve statehood when its "complex problems" are solved, but reiterated his belief that "there is no justification for deferring the admission to statehood of Hawaii...