Word: statehooder
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Ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him Territorial Governor of Alaska in 1939, chunky, mercurial Ernest Gruening has campaigned vehemently for the abolition of his office. Last week, testifying at a congressional hearing on Alaskan statehood, he reiterated his reasons. Alaska, he said, can never really develop until it becomes a full-fledged member of the Union, takes part in presidential elections, chooses its own governor, and sends Senators and a Congressman to Washington to fight its battles...
...Hawaii, Krug advocated the final step. In the throne room of Hawaiian kings in lolani Palace, he promised to plead with Congress to grant statehood to Hawaii. President Truman, he said, would do everything he could to obtain it. The territorial legislature had just opened with a peculiarly Polynesian contribution to democracy in action-a hula orchestra with an outsize swaying dancer...
...question of statehood for both Hawaii and Alaska would be before congressional committees for months. Meanwhile, Krug's rhetorical question would be asked again & again: "Can we, with a clear conscience, tell others how to insure freedom and self-government if we ... deny it to hundreds of thousands of our citizenry? Hawaiians want political equality ... just as much as do Texans or Californians or Vermonters...
...before he left the territory, Cap Krug announced the release of 18 million acres of Government land, much of it freed by narrowing the five-mile right-of-way along the Alaska Highway to 300 feet. He also surprised many an old settler by advocating statehood (Alaskans will vote on the question on Oct. 8) and the construction of a railroad through Canada to the "outside...
Most Canadians reacted the way they always do when union with the U.S. is proposed. At Kenora, Ont., George Barrett, Attorney General of Illinois, told an audience of Rotarians that Canadians should break their "sentimental" ties with Great Britain and seek statehood south of the border. Indignant citizens were baying at his heels before he could say "George Washington...