[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 120 (Monday, July 24, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1499]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


     A PROCLAMATION RECOGNIZING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 
     INDEPENDENCE OF POHNPEI
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                               speech of

                           HON. ROBERT W. NEY
                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, July 21, 1995
  Nr. NEY. Mr. Speaker, I commend the following article to my 
colleagues:
  Whereas, the island of Pohnpei, the capital of the federated states 
of Micronesia will soon celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the 
acceptance of the Japanese surrender, and,
  Whereas, the island will hold festivities beginning on the eleventh 
day of September in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-five.
  Whereas, the island of Pohnpei was occupied by the United States 
after World War II and became a United Nations Trust Territory.


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