Statement by the Honorable Mason Sears, in the Committee on Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories, on statehood for Alaska and Hawaii, 12 mayo 1959

Abstract

...The attainment of statehood by Alaska and Hawaii come less than six years after the adoption of a United Nations resolution concerning the establishment of Puerto Rico and its two and a quarter million people as a self-governing commonwealth, voluntarily associated by vote of its people in a compact with the United States...