STATE OF AMERICA
Admission Of Hawaii WASHINGTON. December 21. The Secretary of the Interior (Mr It. Ickes) to-day recommended that Hawaii should lie admitted into tile Union as the 39th State of America. He said that since 1900 Hawaiian? had been governed under provisional statehood. They had expressed a desire for full statehood in >940 in a 2 to 1 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 they had demonstrated their eligibility and right for admission into the Union.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23392, 26 December 1945, Page 5
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102STATE OF AMERICA Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23392, 26 December 1945, Page 5
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