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Cod* 6-31-0
MINUTE SHEET.
Reference......
Please see Mr.McCormick-Goodhart's minute on the
attached copy of H.R.2982, which proposes to extend the
jurisdiction of the U.S.District Court in Hawaii over certato
Pacific islands.
Of the islands named, all are American except
(a) Canton and Enderbury, which are the subject
of Anglo-U.S. discussions;
(b) Sand Island,which may be American but which
I cannot find.  (It cannot, I think, be the
island of that name which lies at the northern
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end of the Solomewt Islands under AustralJwL
mandate. Perhaps the Naval Attache can help.)
Subject to the question of Sand Id., I think it might
be well to draw the S.D.'s attention to this bill in the
same informal way as was done v/ith the Hepburn ftaval Report,
since its provisions appear to prejudge the intentions of
Arts. 11 and 111 of the draft exchange of notes at 177/82/3P,
to which the S.D. have still not replied.
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