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On his trip through the islands in 1946, Admiral Carleton Wright gave each island chief an American flag for display. Here Igifarem, chief of Pigue, stands between two other men with the flag draped over his arm. But the flag wouldn't buy the soap and matches and tools that people needed so badly.
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