America and Its Responsibility: the Small Islands

Kahn, E J (1966). "America and Its Responsibility: the Small Islands". pp. 45–46.

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Abstract: Several weeks ago, a man from Yap happened to be in New York City, and, hoping to find someone who would recognize his homeland, he stopped at the United Nations building. On approaching the U.N. in- formation desk, the Yapese was a mite saddened, though not terribly surprised, to learn that no one there had ever heard of Yap, or, when it came to that, of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. The Territory, also often called Micronesia, is under U.N. jurisdiction. A three-million-square-mile expanse of the northwest Pacific, Micronesia has, for the past twenty years, been overseen on behalf of the international organization by the United States