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...tanker operator. To avoid high costs at home, American shipowners register so many new vessels under foreign flags that U.S.-flag fleet now totals only 19% of free world tanker tonnage v. 60% in 1945. U.S. will fall to fourth spot (behind Britain, Norway, Liberia) by 1961 unless trend is reversed...
...interest and admiration your March 18 article on the new country of Ghana and the Rev. Martin L. King's affection for it. I believe that the late Senator Theodore G. Bilbo had an excellent idea when he obtained 2,500,000 Negro signatures and proposed the Greater Liberia act, which called for federal aid in the voluntary repatriation of Negroes who were illegally brought against their will to this hemisphere as slaves. A revival of this bill would indeed settle the present racial conflict for the benefit of both races...
...unofficial occasions on the trip, for through the long tour Nixon rarely allowed himself to lose sight of his diplomatic job. And-as correspondents began to discover toward the end of the tour-the job was far more than handshakes and baby-patting. On his seven-nation (Morocco, Ghana, Liberia, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan, Libya) African go-round, he held down-to-earth closed-door conferences with African leaders, learned how to juggle tactfully the usual requests for foreign aid, came away each time satisfied that he had done something to explain the goals and hopes...
...Liberia had laid out the red carpet. Nixon was appointed honorary paramount chief of all the Liberian tribes (permitting him, if he should ever decide to retire to Liberia, to marry as many wives as he can support). Handshaking and waving his way through crowded village and city streets, he got a handsome welcome from President William V. S. Tubman, who reflected his country's devotion to the U.S. with dinners, gifts (carved ivory box, solid gold watch chain) and words ("Our strongest, closest and most reliable friend"). On behalf of a friendly...
Nixon presented Liberia with two Coast Guard utility boats and a six months' instruction course for Liberian navymen-bringing that nation's naval strength up to three vessels: two Coast Guard utility boats, one presidential yacht...