Today. public attention in many foreign countries. particularly the less developed nations in Asia and Africa. is riveted even more intensively on the outcome of Hawaii statehood than it was on the issue of Alaska. For with Hawaii. we propose to elevate to full statehood a United States Territory inhabited by approximately half a million Americans. and of that population 80 percent are either Hawaiian or part Hawaiian or descendents of Chinese. Japanese. and other Asiatic peoples. Only about 95.000 in Hawaii were classified as Caucasian in the 1950 census. Granting the full range of rights. liberties. and duties to the people of Hawaii. which American statehood automatically confers. would have an immensely favorable impact on millions of nonwhites who live in free nations constantly being courted by Soviet Russia.