Abstract
Western Samoa, which was administered by New Zealand from 1920 to 1961, at first under a League of Nations Mandate, and since 1946 under a United Nations Trusteeship Agreement, attained full independence as from 1 Jan. 1962.
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Steinberg, S.H. (1962). Western Samoa. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270916_19
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