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Black & White. The object of this unaccustomed British deference is a 43-year-old bachelor who likes to say: "Every woman in the Gold Coast is my bride." Last week he was paying a state visit to Liberia's President Tubman (see NEWS IN PICTURES...
BETWEEN the Sahara and the Union of South Africa lies Tropical Africa, where a quarter of a million whites rule 150,000,000 blacks. Ethiopia and tiny Liberia are its only independent states; the rest (some 6,500,000 sq. mi.) is ruled by four European powers: Britain, France, Belgium and Portugal...
...Liberia, about the size of Mississippi, was founded in 1822 by the do-gooding American Colonization Society, which swapped a shipload of trinkets for 1,000 acres of jungle on which to relocate U.S. slaves. Liberia's capital, Monrovia, is named for President James Monroe; its constitution is based on that of the U.S. Population: 20,000 Christian descendants of the former slaves, who run the show; 1,500,000 jungle pagans, some of whom were not subdued until 1936. Resources: gold, iron ore, (Firestone) rubber...
...ship, known around Vicksburg as "The Ark of LeTourneau," will cast off and nose out into the muddy Mississippi. Its cargo consists of $500,000 worth of heavy earthmoving, lumbering and land-clearing machinery, food supplies for a year, 500 New Testaments and a dozen "technical missionaries." Its destination: Liberia...
Spiritual Point Four. But Earth-Mover LeTourneau has never been satisfied just to fill the financial side of his bargain. After a trip to Liberia in 1951, he decided that the best way to teach the Gospel to the natives was to teach them American technical skills at the same time. From the Liberian government LeTourneau leased 500,000 acres of jungle for 80 years at 6? an acre, laid plans to cultivate the land with such crops as rice, grapefruit, bananas and palms, cut down and export mahogany. He agreed to pour back the first five years' profits...