From: johnl@iecc.com   
      
   >as to why American Samoa had an entirely different status than area   
   >under Mandate/Trusteeship was simply to note that it was WWI spoils but   
   >separately negotiated years earlier.   
      
   Really, you can stop digging.  American Samoa was no more WW I spoils   
   than Hawaii was.  We had an existing treaty that said it was ours,   
   and nothing in WW I or the Versailles treaty changed that.   
      
   German Samoa, on the other hand, was occupied by the British (New   
   Zealand actually) in 1914.  The Versailles treaty (art 119) removed it   
   from Germany and (art 22) made it a Mandate.  The League of Nations in   
   1920 clarified that as a Class C mandate administered by New Zealand.   
      
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