America’S Pacific Islands
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Transfer To Civil Administration
THE President of the The United States, on May 18, called for the transfer from naval to civil administration of Guam within a year, and of American Samoa and the Pacific Trust Territories (Caroline, Mariana and Marshall Islands) within the next two or three years. He approved the “organic” legislation for Guam and American Samoa prepared and soon to be submitted to Congress.
After setting the time limits for the restoration to civil administration, Mr.
Truman said: “It is the announced aim of this Government to accord civil gov ernment and a full measure of civil rights to the inhabitants of its Pacific terri tories The accomplishment of this objective will be furthered by the trans fer of these territories to civil administra tion and the enactment of organic legislation at the earliest practicable date.”
Mr. W. G. Johnson, managing director R. Carpenter & Co. ((Fiji) Ltd., left Nadi in May for the United Kingdom on a business trip. He expected to be away for only three weeks, during which time he will discuss Fiji copra matters with the Ministry of Food in London, and will inspect coconut oil processing fac tories in North America.