[1] However, after a year teaching he was required by the Japanese to work in phosphate pits, where he spent most of World War II.

[1] During the war his parents were executed by the Japanese and he acted as a scout for American troops as they invaded the territory.

[6] In 1952 he was awarded a United Nations fellowship to study public school administration, spending time in Fiji, New Zealand and Samoa.

[7] During the 1950s he also appeared at the United Nations to protest atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll,[8] after which he was temporarily removed from his position in the civil service.

[5] He served as District Administrator until 1969, after which he became special consultant to the High Commissioner, a position he held until he retired in 1980.