EM 45: What Future for the Islands of the Pacific? (1944)
By Felix M. Keesing
Professor, Stanford University
(Published October 1944)
- Island Peoples
- A Political Patchwork
Why Are the Powers Interested?
- Rivalries for Sea Lanes and Ports
- The United States Gains Territories
- A More Active Policy
- A War Footing
- “Remember Pearl Harbor”
- Military Governments Take Charge
- What Are Other Nations Thinking?
- Polynesia
- Melanesia
- Micronesia
- Vigorous Peoples
- White Settlers
- Peoples from Asia
- New Island Stocks
- Political Patchwork
- The American Stake
- The Former Japanese Islands
- The British Islands
- Other National Stakes
- “Indirect Rule”
- How Much Self-Government Is There?
- Do the Non-Natives Have a Say?
- Are There “Nationalist” Movements?
How Do the Natives Make a Living?
- Commerce and Depression
- Are the Islands Rich in Minerals?
- What Are the Economic Prospects?
At the Postwar Conference Tables
- What Are Some Possible Lines of Policy?
- Five Zones
- Tasks To Be Done
- Questions for Discussion
Primary source documents from 1944–46