After World War II, the United States assumed responsibilities for the Northern Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands, and the Marshall Islands under a 1947 trusteeship agreement with the United Nations. The United States had the obligation to prepare these Micronesians for self-government or independence after termination of the trusteeship, but the Interior, State, and Defense Departments paid little attention to this question until 1961.
Willens and Siemer examine the Kennedy administration's formation of a new Micronesian policy aimed at bringing these islanders under U.S. sovereignty by 1968, the inability of the federal agencies to achieve this objective, and their refusal to acknowledge that the Northern Marianas people had very different economic and political aspirations than the other Micronesians. By 1969, the Micronesian leaders―except for those of the Northern Marianas―were increasingly attracted to a future political status that rejected United States citizenship and had most of the attributes of a sovereign nation-state. Willens and Siemer analyze the initial negotiations between United States and Micronesian representatives, the inability of the United States to respond positively to the demands of the Micronesian negotiators, and the national defense and strategic objectives at issue. By April 1972, the United States recognized that its non-fragmentation policy conflicted with the right of self-determination of the Northern Marianas people and agreed to separate status negotiations with them. A detailed review of recent Micronesian history that will be of considerable value to U.S. government officials involved with insular affairs and foreign policy and scholars and researchers of Micronesian, Pacific islands, and Marianas affairs.

National Security and Self-Determination: United States Policy in Micronesia (1961-1972)

History

Willens, Howard P.

Siemer, Deanne C.

Americas

Praeger

In 1975, after three centuries of colonial rule, the people of the Northern Marianas exercised their right of self-determination to become U.S. citizens in a self-governing commonwealth under U.S. sovereignty. An Honorable Accord is the remarkable account of their tenacious efforts to shape a political future separate from other Micronesian peoples, of the negotiations that produced the Covenant defining the commonwealth relationship, and its eventual approval by the Northern Marianas people and the U.S. Congress.

An Honorable Accord : The Covenant Between the Northern Mariana Islands and the United States (Pacific Islands Monograph Series, No. 18.)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

University of Hawaii Press

Everything was over in mere seconds, but the events of that day have been the subject of heated debate for five decades. The presidential commission tasked with finding the truth, headed by then-Chief Justice Earl Warren, published its findings the following year--Oswald had acted alone--but the report did little to quell conspiracy theorists. Many seized on what they saw as inconsistencies in the report and branded the whole investigation an elaborate cover-up. Warren himself calmly dismissed the criticism, assuring his fellow commission members that "history will prove that we are right." Now, in this eye-opening new account of the Commission and its findings, Howard P. Willens sets out to prove that Warren's advice was prescient. Willens, one of the few living staff members of the Warren Commission, supervised the investigation from the very beginning and has waited until now to silence the critics and well-intentioned armchair detectives. Drawn from Willens' own journals and extensive notes on the investigation--which have never before been published--History Will Prove Us Right tells the true and complete story, perhaps for the first time, of every aspect of the investigation into one of the century's most harrowing events from a uniquely first-person perspective.

History Will Prove Us Right: Inside the Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy

Abrams Press

The sommission tasked with investigating the assassination published its findings the following year--Oswald had acted alone--but the report did little to quell consipiracy theorists. Chief Justice Warren calmly dismissed the criticism, assuring his fellow commission member that "history will prove that we are right." In this eye-opening account of the commission and its findings, History Will Prove Us Right tells the true and complete story of every aspect of the investigation from a uniquely first person perspective.

The Secret Guam Study, Second Edition

Ballendorf, Dirk A.

University of Guam Press

On February 1, 1975, National Security Adviser Henry A. Kissinger informed the departments of Defense, Interior, and State that President Gerald R. Ford had decided that the U.S. should seek agreement with Guamanian representatives on a commonwealth relationship no less favorable than that which we are negotiating with the Northern Marianas. This presidential decision was based on a year-long classified study by these agencies, which concluded that the national security and defense interests of the U.S. required that Guam's legitimate complains about its political status be promptly addressed.

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National Security and Self-Determination: United States Policy in Micronesia (1961-1972)

An Honorable Accord : The Covenant Between the Northern Mariana Islands and the United States (Pacific Islands Monograph Series, No. 18.)

History Will Prove Us Right: Inside the Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy

History Will Prove Us Right: Inside the Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy

The Secret Guam Study, Second Edition

The Secret Guam Study, Second Edition