Rights of Citizenship
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Guam And Eastern
Samoa
r„ . . . , E special civilian committee which
famls
Forrestal tostudvcondftlonsat GuSm
and re Americ^n St^moT n Sco^memde^,
May 10, immediate United States citizen ship for the residents of these places. Both Territories, for years, have been governed hv thp Tinifpd statpq Naw Y lt also recommended that Congress should pass legislation to establish a Bill of Rights and a local Congress for both ?hp C nniTp h d IC qfalfNa e ?v are governed by th rented that “the after mfp<= h nf iQlonri? nnH d pns
their Social ISuctures
oShph “not
a ™L GQnvinced, the report added not
obUgaUon ot thf unitld
ment to takei early and advanced steps towards the extension of rights and pnyi leges to these peoples The committee stated that settlement and payment of war damage claims at Guam and Amen can Samoa had been proceeding much ™o slowly.
The committee recommended, further, the elimination of barriers between America and Western Samoa which, it said, formed a predominant and all pervasive cause of unhappiness and dis content.”
Mr. Porrestal said he concurred with the recommendations for citizenship, a Bill of Rights and a local Congress. The United States Congress would be asked to take action.