American Policy in Micronesia: National Security Action Memoranda 145 (18 April 1962) and 243 (9 May 1963)

EIlenberg, Matthew (January 1982). "American Policy in Micronesia: National Security Action Memoranda 145 (18 April 1962) and 243 (9 May 1963)". The Journal of Pacific History. 17 (1): 62–64. doi:10.1080/00223348208572435. ISSN 1469-9605 0022-3344, 1469-9605 .

Abstract: From 1947 until the early 1960s United States concerns in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands were primarily strategic: military bases were established; the islands provided sites for nuclear testing. The Administration pursued a policy of gradual development, amounting to neglect; anthropologists observed the islanders, who were largely left to their own devices. In the early 1960s the United Nations began to take a more active interest in decolonization. The progress of self-determination in former dependencies, and miserable conditions in Micronesia, convinced President Kennedy of the need to hasten development. NSAM 145 (April 1962) authorized the appointment of an interdepartmental task force charged with developing policies that would accomplish Kennedy's goal—'a new and lasting relationship'that would tie Micronesia to the United States' within our political framework'. NSAM 243 (May 1963) established the Solomon mission which recommended policies of accelerated political, social and economic change that would, it was hoped, ensure a future status referendum result in accordance with United States interests. The political sections of the so-called Solomon Report were later leaked and published in The Young Micronesian, 1: 3 (1971). The memoranda that led to the appointment of the Solomon mission have only recently been declassified and are published here that they might be readily available to scholars with an interest in American policy and decolonization.

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