a ~ AUG" OUI - - wt a mot or 408323 Rn ioe ~~ Noverber 18, 1957 orn @ hee Senator Clifford Case United States Senate Washington, D.C, . Dear Senator Case; - I've decided to confront you.with a serious problem facing my wife and I and 300 people with whom we are living. I am making you the sounding board knowing the kind of man you are and that you represent me in the Senate, My wife Hope and I are serving . two years in the Peace Corps. We have been assigned to the isolated island of 4i2i in the Marshall Islands District of the Trust Territory. If after hearing the word Kili you don't know what my problem is, you are an exanplc of how important it is for me to write this letter. Plcase don't take that wast statement as an insult; it's intention was to make the point that there are only a handful of people that know about the people of Kili and their distressing situation, If you are aware of the Kili problen, then I am further justified in choosing you to hear me out, Looking at any map, whether of the world or Pacific Ocean, you will probably NOT find Kili. It is on neither such maps that we received with our Peace Corps book collection. We have written and received an up-to-date picture series of Australia and the Pacific Islands, and not only was Kili missing, the entire Trust Territory had apparently "sunk". One last example to show you my doubts as to Who keoud about this problem occured Ta line Unibed States juah he Core we left for training. I wanted my subscription to a popular weekly news magazine to reach me at our training site in Micronesia. I queried the mailing department as to whether or not they could and would send my subscription of Micronesia, In turn, I received a letter stating that maybe I had misspelled the word or was inaccurate in some way, because they could not find the "city Micronesia anywhere in the United States"!!! Assuming, as I mst, that you are nowt fully aware of this problem, I will briefly explain the history of these people. If my assumption BEST COPY AVAILABLE , ' : ’ : > '