Notes


1 For elaboration of the historical context, see these works by this author: Civil
 Liberties in the U.S. Virgin Islands. 1917-1949 (St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands:
 Antilles Graphic Arts, 1982); and America's Virgin Islands: A History of Human
 Rights and Wrongs (Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press, 1983).

 2. The leading authority is: Charles C. Tansill, The Purchase of the Danish West
 Indies (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1932, London: Oxford
 University Press, 1932).

 3. For texts of the Treaties of 1867 and 1902, see ibid., Appendixes A and B, 517-
 526.

 4. Robert Lansing, "Drama of the Virgin Islands Purchase," The New York Times
 Magazine, 19 July 1931, 4.

 5. Article 6, Convention between the United States and Denmark for the Cession of
 the Danish West Indies, proclaimed January 25, 1917; 39 Stat. 1706. For the text
 of the Convention see: Tansill, Appendix C., 527-537; and James A. Bough and
 Roy C. Macridis, eds., Virgin Islands. America's Caribbean Outoost--The
 Evolution of Self-Government (Wakefield, Mass: Walter F. Williams Publishing
 Co., 1970), 30-39.

 6. The New York Times. 20 January 1918, sec. 1, 1.

 7. Quoted in Tansill, 492.

 8. Quoted in Luther H. Evans, The Virgin Islands from Naval Base to New Deal (Ann
 Arbor, Mich.: J. W. Edwards, 1945), 62.

 9. Ibid., 62-63.

10. Waldo Evans, The Virgin Islands of the United States. A General Report by the
 Governor (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1928), 62.

11. See, Boyer, Civil Liberties in the U.S. Virgin Islands, ch. 1, for analysis of the
 Insular Cases and their significance for the Virgin Islands.

12. 39 Stat. 1132 (1917).

13. Luther Evans, 53.