CIVIL ADMINISTRATION OF GUAM AND SAMOA
WASHINGTON, May 18.
President Truman today called for the transfer from the naval to the civil administration of Guam within a year and of American Samoa and Pacific trust territories within the next two or three years. In a letter to the Secretary of the Interior, Mr. J. Krug, the President approved legislation for Guam and American Samoa prepared by that department and soon to be submitted to Congress. After setting time limits for the restoration to civil administration, Mr. Truman §aid: "It is the announced aim of this Government to accord civil government and full measure of civil rights to the inhabitants of its Pacific territories. The accomplishment of this objective will be furthered by the transfer of these territories to the civil administration and the enactment of organic legislation at the earliest practicable date.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22951, 20 May 1949, Page 5
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