From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   John Levine  wrote:   
      
   >>As long as I was looking it up, I learned why American Samoa was never   
   >>a Trust Territory despite being a former German colony   
      
   >American Samoa was never a German colony.  When that 1899 treaty split   
   >the Samoan islands, we got what is now American Samoa, the Germans got   
   >what is now (Western) Samoa.   
      
   I should have written that less sloppily. There were Germans there to   
   colonize, setting up trade, etc. The Germans wanted it. At no point had   
   the Germans set up a formal government.   
      
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