The Pacific Islands We Hold
Trusteeship American statesman and diplomat, FRANCIS B. SAYRE served as our High Commissioner to the Philippines from 1939 to 1942, escaping from Corregidor with his wife and son by submarine. In 1947 President Truman appointed him our Representative in the Trusteeship Council of the United Nations, and in this capacity in 1949 he completed an 11,000-mile survey of the former Japanese-mandated islands which our Navy is now administering as trust territory.