TERRITORIES: Fight & Fantasy (Cont'd)

Fight & Fantasy (Cont'd)

Last week the U. S. watched two of its distinguished public servants let their hair down and breathe hard in a fierce family squabble over the issue of whether Republican incumbents or Democratic hopefuls should administer 133 sq. mi. of remote tropic islands containing a population, mostly Negro, barely large enough to fill two thirds of the University of West Virginia's football stadium.

More light was thrown on the character of that issue as the Senate investigation of Republican Governor Paul Martin Pearson's administration of the Virgin...

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