PACIFIC ISLES
AMERICAN INTEREST
Senator Demands Report On Commitments N.Z. Press Association—Copyright Rec. 10 a.m. WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. Demanding that Congress be given full information of commitments among the Allies, Republican Senator, Dr. Henrick Shipstead, pointed out that Australia and New Zealand concluded a treaty reserving to themselves an important part of the disposition of Pacific islands, "apparently including islands which have not yet been recovered from the Japanese."
Dr. Shipstead added that it would appear to be proper for the Senate to know something about such agreement as the United States was committed to divesting the Japanese Empire of conquests made in the past half-century. Senator Shipstead told the Senate that it should know what American manpower was being sent to fight for. "Is it," he asked, "really for the socialisation of much of Europe or for the creation of some hybrid Australasia-European sovereignty over the entire western and southern Pacific oceans?" Dr. Shipstead was elected to the United States Senate in 1027, when standing as a Farmer-Labour candidate against Senator Frank D. Kellogg. Before entering the Senate he practised as a dentist in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 40, 17 February 1944, Page 5
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