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...From the 200 Christians in the West African settlement of Bolahun, Liberia to Episcopal Bishop Wallace E. Conkling of Chicago went a check for $22.25. The congregation of Bolahun sent this gift (the proceeds of their 1948 Easter collection) to further the work of Chicago's Negro Episcopal congregations...
Married. William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, 52, dapper, coal-black President of the Liberian Republic; and Antoinette Padmore, thirtyish, granddaughter of Liberian ex-President Arthur Barclay and cousin of Tubman's predecessor, Edwin Barclay; he for the third time, she for the first; in Monrovia, Liberia...
...only half a dozen Negro officers in the Army, his choice of assignments was strictly limited. He taught military science at Negro colleges, served as military attache in Liberia. He spent World War I sidetracked in the Philippines. But Davis took soldierly satisfaction in doing any job he was assigned...
...public decision at Flushing Meadow, no one knew whether U.N. would approve partition. A two-thirds vote among nations voting in the full Assembly was needed to win final approval. In the middle of the week, defeat of the partition plan seemed probable. Nations like Haiti, the Philippines, Liberia, Greece, which normally follow the U.S. lead, said that they would vote no. Both the U.S. and Russia (together for the first time on a major issue) supported partition. But the very fact of U.S. Russian agreement seemed to free many smaller nations from the necessity of taking a stand...
...Vieux spoke heatedly against partition; two days later he announced shamefacedly that his government had ordered him to switch to yes. Filipino Delegate General Carlos Romulo, on Wednesday, orated against partition and sailed away on the Queen Mary. Saturday a new Filipino delegate flew in from Washington, voted yes. Liberia, which voted no in committee, said yes in the final roll call. In the final days Arab and Jewish hopes alternately soared and plummeted...