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US Department Of State Post Report
The total population of the Marshall Islands as of the 1999 census was 50,840 people. That was an increase of 7,460 people since the 1988 census. Majuro and Ebeye are the two urban population centers. Over 50% of Marshallese live on Majuro Atoll. Out of the total population, 19% live in the island of Ebeye in Kwajalein Atoll and 3% on the outer islands of Kwajalein Atoll. With just 0.14 square miles, Ebeye Island is the most densely populated area in the Marshall Islands, with an equivalent population density of 66,750 persons per square mile. The city of Majuro and Ebeye offer amenities, such as electricity, modern Western lifestyles, and employment opportunities (albeit limited) that continually draw younger Marshallese from the outer islands. On the outer atolls the lifestyle is mostly unchanged and untouched by modern development. ... [Read More]
The Marshall Plan: The Vision of a Family of Nations – Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
The second lesson we can learn from the experience of General Marshall and the Marshall Plan is the need for patience and for a sense of proportion. Many people today assume that the Marshall Plan was an obvious and popular solution to a well-defined problem and that it worked quickly and efficiently and effectively. But that's not how it was. It took nine months to persuade a suspicious and reluctant Congress to act and it took nearly four years before the program had been fully implemented in Europe. And it took still more time for the many positive political spin-offs of the Marshall Plan to become apparent, to develop, which included not only NATO and the OECD but also the foundation of the European Union. ... [Read More]
US Department Of State Post Report
The outside world had little contact with the islands until the mid-19th century, when American whalers and missionaries entered the region. Spain claimed the Caroline and Mariana Islands in 1885 and retained them until 1899, when Germany purchased most of the island chains in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War. Germany, in turn, lost its possession to Japan in 1914 at the beginning of World War I. The League of Nations formally extended a mandate to Japan in 1920, thus confirming the Japanese era of colonization. Intensive crop production began, and the islands became exporters of many agricultural products. In 1945, after World War II, control passed to the U.S. Navy and then to the Department of Interior under a Trusteeship under U.N. auspices which began in 1947. The FSM, together with the Marshall Islands, Palau, and Northern Mariana Islands, made up the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. The FSM came into existence in 1979, and on November 3, 1986, the FSM and the Uni ... [Read More]
US Department Of State Post Report
How and when the Palauan Islands were first settled is uncertain. Perhaps about 10,000 years ago, people moved into the Micronesian islands from what is now Indonesia and the Philippines. The first permanent settlements, however, may not have been before 500 A.D. The first extended contact with Western civilization occurred in 1783 when the British vessel ‘Antelope’ shipwrecked near Koror. Outside important trade routes, Palau was generally left alone until Spain formalized claims to Palau in 1885. In 1899 Germany purchased most of Spain's Micronesian island chains in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War. Germany lost possession to Japan in 1914. The League of Nations formally extended Japan's mandate in 1920. During World War II, on September 15, 1944, U.S. forces landed on the Palauan islands of Peleliu and Angaur where they fought one of the memorable battles of the Pacific war. In 1945 control of Pa ... [Read More]
Earth Day 1996 Bibliography
Earth Island Journal: an International Environmental NewsMagazine, Earth Island Institute, quarterly, ISSN1041-0406 ... Miller, Joseph A., et al. The Island Press Bibliography ofEnvironmental Literature. Island Press, 1993, cloth, ISBN1-55963-189-9 ... Island Press. Eco-Compass. ... [Read More]
A Public-Private Partnership for Foreign Policy Post-September 11: Too Important to Be Left to Diplomats
In the following decades, again and again, American leaders have sought to rekindle the public’s commitment to engagement abroad. After World War II, President Truman and his Congressional allies struggled to gain popular support for the great decisions to create NATO, form the IMF and World Bank, and launch the Marshall Plan. President Kennedy’s decision to form the Peace Corps was a conscious attempt to harness the idealism of America’s youth and direct it outward to improving the world through overseas experience. As late as 1984, the scarcity of private groups promoting democracy abroad led President Reagan to form the National Endowment for Democracy and the international arms of labor unions, businesses, and the Republican and Democratic parties to support political parties, free enterprise and independent unions as the foundations of democracy. ... [Read More]
Remarks at the Transatlantic Democracy Network Conference
Good morning. Thank you very much, Ron. Good morning to everyone, it’s a pleasure to see all of you. I’m very happy to be with you. I want to give you a few thoughts, an American government perspective on democracy in Europe and the Middle East and beyond. But first I want to thank the organizers, the Marshall Fund certainly with Ron and Tom Melia. We flew in together the other night. We began our careers together in Mauritania – Tom in 1978, me in 1980 in our little American embassy in Nouakchott. That was a great experience. And we thank Freedom House for everything that it has been doing to promote democracy and freedom around the world. ... [Read More]
Press Availability With New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
QUESTION: You did tell me that you've never been invited, so we came here to invite you to be the Grand Marshall. ... Times Square holds a special place in the hearts of everybody in New York, maybe everybody in America and everybody in the world. I don't think there's any one location that better symbolizes everything that America stands for. People come here and they get along and they enjoy themselves and they get a chance to really understand what Americans are all about. ... [Read More]
Council of the Americas’ 34th Annual Washington Conference
Corruption is another enemy of democracy. Corruption can destroy the faith of citizens in democratic government; so we are working hard to help to implement the provisions of the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption. We're doing everything we can to deny safe haven to corrupt officials. We're doing everything we can to get their assets and to aggressively prosecute corruption cases. ... President Bush is strongly committed to supporting the efforts of the Cuban people to build an independent civil society and free the flow of ideas and information to, from and across the island. The new U.S. Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, which I chair, is exploring ways we can help Cubans peacefully prepare for the inevitable democratic transition and to help them hasten the arrival, or the beginning, of that transition. ... [Read More]
USIS Washington File: TRANSCRIPT: SECSTATE Q&A WITH NEWSPAPER EDITORS
There are those who believe that every single problem that we have with Russia is due to NATO enlargement. Let me make this statement: We and the Russians do have very many issues in common that we work on as partners or in parallel, but there are issues that we disagree on and we will disagree on. And blaming everything on NATO enlargement is like blaming everything on El Nino. You know, there are certain issues that just happen that are part of the scene. So I think that while the Russians do not like NATO expansion, they are dealing with it and we are dealing with a way to keep them very much within the family of nations. ... [Read More]
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