Happy Tahiti!

And What America May Do

“VTOT many days pass,” writes il Marc. T. Greene, American newspaper reporter, on his way from Tahiti to Europe, “that I don’t long to be back in Tahiti, where I was happier, I think, on this third visit, than ever before. As Nordhoff says, it is still the happiest place on earth —no doubt at all of that —absolutely different from every other in almost every way.

“The only threat, at present, on the horizon, to that state of things, is the rumoured possibility of the big American boats coming there. If that happens—farewell, Tahiti!

“One of the saddest tragedies in the history of the Pacific would be the turning of Tahiti into another Hawaii.”