Often Asians give the superior air of Americans as their reason -for turning to alternative ways of life. Therefore. it seems to me that we have a chance in Hawaii to seize the psychological initiative in that area of the * world. Where they are now concerned with the contrasts between communism and independence. we would go on record before the world as proposing a peaceful democratic accession at the suggestion of a people or a territory which is largely Asiatic. We are. in effect. a hundred years after our own secession movement. indulging in a laudable bit of accession. This. in contrast with the colonialism fears in Asia. would strike a refreshing note. I have no doubt. in that quarter of the world. Likewise. it would suggest our own acceptance of the thesis of equality. By granting Hawaii statehood in our system of government. we will be saying to the rest of the world that we hold no discriminatory views toward Asiatic peoples. In addition to the many excellent reasons which already have been developed. I appeal to the Senate to consider statehood for Hawaii in the realm of a positive way of combating communism and of a psychological posture which is constructive and helpful and will inure to our benefit in the struggle which is now going on throughout the world for the minds of men.