Word: statehooders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only difference will be in advertising content. The advertisements in the Pacific edition are naturally aimed at customers in Asia and the Far Pacific. Hawaii is part of the American market. Last year, for example, the Islands imported $400 million worth of goods from the States. Particularly as statehood gets closer, it is only logical that readers in Hawaii should get the U.S. edition. TIME is glad to add this one additional tie between the mainland and the Islands...
...home, the President's ambitious legislative program has bogged down. Hawaiian statehood and Taft-Hartley revision, for all practical purposes, are lost for this session of Congress. The Administration, it now appears, will not fight hard for its foreign-trade program-at least not this year. Eisenhower's farm policy is under withering fire. Foreign aid is in trouble, seems in for deep cutbacks. Housing legislation is holed up in a Senate committee. Meanwhile, the most conspicuous sight in Washington is that of Republicans locked in a death struggle with other Republicans in the Army-McCarthy hearings...
...Involvement. The U.S. has long been pulling out of the colonial business-voluntarily. Hawaii and Alaska are close to statehood; Puerto Rico has been offered more independence than its loyal American citizens are willing to accept. In the Pacific, the U.S. is keeping most of the bases it won from Japan (e.g., Okinawa), but in the Philippines it can point with pride to unprecedented colonial achievement. The Philippine Republic is unique not because it is well run and democratic (many British colonies are, too), but because its people, voting freely, elected President Ramon Magsaysay, a man whose platform is solidarity...
...House can appoint conferees only by 1) unanimous consent, which Southern Representatives will be happy to refuse because they don't like the idea of statehood for multiracial Hawaii, or 2) a go-ahead from its legislative traffic cop, the Rules Committee, controlled by the G.O.P. leadership, which is notably lukewarm toward Alaskan statehood...
...slight chance remained: the possibility of an all-out effort by President Eisenhower to get the bill through Congress. And Dwight Eisenhower is already on the record against Alaskan statehood at this time...