ISLANDS AS WAR MEMORIALS
NEW YORK, Nov. 18. Plans are now virtuaiiy compiete for a chain of permanent scientific outposts throughout the Pacific. as "a living war memorial". Dr. Dillon Ripley, Dean of Anthropology at Yale TJniversity, who has already visited eight islands where the National Research Council proposes to establish science bases, said arrangements had heen made for a public suhscription drive during the coming winter which, it is hoped, will yield 10,000,000 dollars. The money will he used to establish stations for the study of public health, medicine, tropical agriculture, botany, zoology, meteorology, oceanography and anthropology at such places as Saipan or Lelew and possibly Okinawa. Dr. Ripley said: "Peeling is growing that the kind of war memorial erected in France after the first World War, was hardly fitting for -the Pacific. The war brought out otu' immense ignorance of the Pacific, especially of the Japanese mandated areas." He added that he hoped to get the Netherlands to agree to allow a similar project in Hollandia.
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 November 1946, Page 9
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