"Utopia"
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Carolines May be Next "Utopia"
Will Tahiti be Supplanted?
From Our Own Correspondent
Papeete, Oct. 1.
rE Caroline Islands are indicated as likely to supplant Tahiti as “the Utopia of the Pacific.”
Given a little time to clear out the Japanese and to equip the islands with honky-tonks, cocktail lounges, juke-boxes and Honolulu hula-girls, these island will become ideal tourist resorts and refuges for those who wish to “get away from it all.”
Kusaie is reputed to be the most beau tiful island in the Pacific.
The “romantic lagoon” of Truk studded with fascinating hilly Islands—ls a stage for fevered South Sea love drama, beyond the wildest dreams of the most erotic Hollywood imagination.
The vast megalithic ruins are honey-pots which will keen scientists buzzing around Ponape and Kusaie dur ing the coming half-century.
Inasmuch as the main air transport routes will be adjacent to these islands, supplies of tinned provender, onions, movie magazines, cigarettes and bottled delight need never become exhausted— as has happened (with catastrophic con sequences) elsewhere in the Pacific.
It would be a pity—with this alluring field ripe for the harvest—if the woolly brained idealists of the United Nations should decide that the Caroline Islanders are entitled to life, libertv and the pur suit of hanpiness, after their own man ner . and thus deny them the exquisite privileges of true Progress.
On second thoughts.'it mteht not be prudent to stir up the Idealists. They Plight briner up the example of Tahiti— which was dosed with “Progress” (includ ing the scientists) during 20 long year*- —and where it will require 50 vears of Isolation to relieve the community from the alcoholic gastritis and the appalline Incidence of cancer this visitation has brought to the island. Then, too, is the decay of good manners—mentioned ear- P er which may take an even longer time to remedy. a *5; sen,5 en , Saxby, son of Mr. and Mrs.
A. M. Saxby. of Lautoka. Fiji, is now a commissioned officer in the RAAP. He is serving in England, and does not expect to get home until late in 1946.
Flight-Lleut. Denis Baker, son of Mr E „ ? a Jl er ’ *x-DC Fiji, has been awarded the DFC. Fllght-Lieut. Baker served as a fighter pilot with the RAAF m New Guinea and the Netherlands East Indies.