We must add the star of a Territory which I believe in many respects is far more advanced and more ready for statehood than Alaska. even though I nowbelieve Alaska is ready for statehood. So tonight. as we close this session. it is my sincere hope the majority leader and the acting majority leader will see fit to call up the Hawaiian statehood bill. It will most certainly be a very great shock and a very great blow to the people of Hawaiiit will be a shock to the peoples of the Asiatic countriesif we do not admit into our Union as a State that great Territory lying West of us. the Territory which absorbed the first great shock of World War II.