Memorandum, Theodore Stevens to Wilton B. Persons Regarding the Eisenhower Administration's Position on Alaska Statehood
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UNITED STATES
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR
147.B.1
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
RECEIVED
AUG-5 1958
March 6,
Memorandum
1957
TO:
General Wilton B. Persons
FROM:
Legislative Counsel
Headow Herews
This memorandum has been prepared in accordance with your
request after the inter-Departmental conference in your office on
March 5.
Problem: Implementation of the Administration's position on Alaska
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Statehood. This position has been stated previously as follows:
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1. The Budget Message of 1957:
I also recommend the enactment of legislation
admitting Hawaii into the Union as a State, and that,
subject to area limitations and other safeguards for the
conduct of defense activities so vitally necessary to our
national security, statehood also be conferred upon Alaska."
2. The Bureau of the Budget's clearance letter to the
Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, dated
February 11:
'The Bureau of the Budget recommends enactment of
S. 49 and S. 50 subject to favorable consideration of amend-
ments to S. 49 to be proposed by the Secretary of Defense
and the Secretary of the Interior."
3. The Republican Party Platform of 1956:
"We pledge immediate statehood for Alaska, recog-
nizing the fact that adequate provision for defense
requirements must be made."
Plan of Action: We wish to implement these statements by offering
amendments to the Congress which would give the President
authority to establish areas within Alaska which will be under
exclusive Federal control. We feel that the alternative
previously discussed - partition of Alaska - is not appropriate
for the following reasons:
1. Partition would disenfranchise approximately 24,000
residents of the area North and West of the proposed line.
These people presently have the right to vote for at least
local and Territorial officials. Partition would resultin a
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