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...troopship. On June 17, months before the invasion of Morocco and Algeria, Private Taylor and an unrevealed number of his fellow soldiers found themselves off the coast of Africa. They were there to make a peaceful and secret invasion of the Negro republic of Liberia...
...last heard from him three months ago in Monrovia. He has worked for TIME three years now, sending us all sorts of unexpected stories and interesting sidelights on the echoes of World War II in his bailiwick. In addition he is Associate Editor of "Who's Who in Liberia" and the author of something he calls "A Classic: God and the Negro"-and all in all we have grown so fond of him we would like to send a Stanley to Africa to see what happened...
...dogs in the Senate now were acid-tongued, bombastic Tom Connally of Texas, floor manager of the poll-tax State foray; Mississippi's Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo, who once proposed deportation of Negroes to Liberia; Tennessee's bumbling Kenneth McKellar, still chafing from his arrest for dodging Senate attendance (TIME, Nov. 23); and owlish Joseph C. O'Mahoney of Wyoming, only Democratic Senator from a non-poll-tax State to take the floor against constitutionality of the bill. O'Mahoney said he had no love for poll taxes, but their abolition...
Vichyfrenchmen in Dakar looked over their shoulders at Liberia, where U.S. troops, according to Reuters last week, had built two airports. Dakar might find itself suddenly caught between two camps. Berlin studied the corners of a chessboard; either airpower had to be shifted from Russia or Rommel would continue to lose the battle of supply. Rome had reason to be afraid. If Rommel's army was destroyed, the Allied fist would be pointed from North Africa at Italy's soft underside...
...General Doolittle's raiders, the War Department defended the delay in the name of military security. But the national reaction was nevertheless one of chagrin at having been played for suckers. Newsmen had to keep silent while London originated the first story that U.S. troops had landed in Liberia, that U.S. tank crews were operating in Egypt, that Mrs. Roosevelt was going to Britain...