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                  Background:New Zealand occupied the German protectorate
                  of Western Samoa at the outbreak of World War I in 1914. It
                  continued to administer the islands as a mandate and then as a
                  trust territory until 1962, when the islands became the first
                  Polynesian nation to reestablish independence in the 20th
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