Governing the Occupied Areas of the South Pacific: Wartime Lessons and Peacetime Proposals

Useem, John (July 1945). "Governing the Occupied Areas of the South Pacific: Wartime Lessons and Peacetime Proposals". Human Organization. 4 (3): 1–10. doi:10.17730/humo.4.3.c20780726w467473. ISSN 0018-7259.

Abstract: American control of the civilian inhabitants of the South Pacific islands during the war was dictated by military necessity. Civilian populations had to be removed from combat zones to prevent their impeding the fighting. They required medical care to preclude the spread of disease to troops. Workers and their families had to be fed, clothed, and sheltered before they could perform urgently needed work in the construction of military installations. Their communities required supervision to insure security behind the lines. American adherence to international law also meant that the armies in the field were obligated to provide a responsible, humanitarian administration which maintained law and order, protected non-combatants, and preserved native institutions. These were the tasks assigned to Navy Military Government in the conquest and occupation of the Japanese-held mandates in Micronesia: the Marshall, Mariana, and Caroline archipelagos.

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