"Sell Guam To Japan!"
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AMERICAN politicians are arguing, still, about the U.S. Navy’s request for “improvements” in Guam Harbour.
So far, the request has been refused.
In an editorial, the “New York Daily News”, largest circulating newspaper in U.S., suggested: “Instead of tempting Japan to snuff out Guam with bombs before we can build it into something really big and
menacing, why not give up the whole idea?
The Philippines are our weak salient — our neck stuck out in the Pacific where it has no right. Let’s concentrate on de fending our own side of the Pacific. Let’s sell Guam—if Japan will buy it. Let's speed permanent and complete United States freedom from the Philippines.”
That reflects about what 60 per cent, of what Americans think—that is, those who think about it.