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Pacific Islands Monthly, 18 August 1947Vol. XVIII, No. 1

North Pacific Policies

p. 11 · Read in the full issue

On the left: Father Bernard R. Hubbard.

Alaska’s famous “glacier priest,” has just com pleted a seven months’ tour of the North Pacific.

He has two warnings. First, the present naval administration of the former Jap-mandated islands should not be replaced by “theorist politicians, too many of them being undeveloped morons.” Second, “we must have occupation of Japan for at least a generation, to wipe out completely the cancer of militaristic shintoism. there is still a group of have-nots waiting so they can get back in . . that is human nature, it will take a new generation to breed a new type of thinking.”