THE 49TH STATE
HAWAII SEEKS ADMISSION FULL MEMBERSHIP OF U.S. UNION (Ren. 12.10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. The Secretary of the Interior, Mr Harold Ickes, to-day recommended that Hawaii should be admitted into the Union as the Forty-ninth State of America. He said that since 1900 the Hawaiians had been governed under provisional Statehood. They had expressed the desire for full Statehood in 1940 in a two-to-one majority vote, but its implementation was held up by the War Department. Mr Ickes added that the Department of the Interior was convinced that the people wanted Statehood now, and that they had demonstrated their eligibility and right for. admission into the union.
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Evening Star, Issue 25673, 22 December 1945, Page 6
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110THE 49TH STATE Evening Star, Issue 25673, 22 December 1945, Page 6
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