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...Indies; with William Green and Philip Murray he talked again about manpower (see p. 18). He also discussed the possible appointment of a food czar. He gave no aid to solving the censorship muddle (see p. 61), by refusing comment on reports from London that U.S. troops are in Liberia and rebuffing any mention of General Dwight Eisenhower's military movements...
French fears: the end of the rainy season and the arrival of U.S. troops in Liberia and other West African outposts (TIME...
...Axis broadcasters reported, with a great air of knowledge, that U.S. combat forces were massing in western Africa (see map): in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, Cameroon. If so, then the U.S., for all military purposes, had taken over the great coastal belt embracing the Allied ports of Freetown, Takoradi, Lagos and Accra, feeding the new air and surface supply routes to Egypt, the rest of the Middle East and Russia. Furthermore, if the Axis was right, U.S. forces were moving into positions from which they could attack Dakar...
Startling claims poured from the jailed leaders. Mme. Mittie Maud said she had four million followers, all taught that they are citizens of Liberia, hence not subject to Selective Service. Elijah Muck-Muhd's faithful knew themselves for Moslems, excused from the draft by direction of Allah in the person of his prophet, Muck-Muhd. Hammurabi's disciples learned they were members of a Jap army within the U.S., that Negro hopes of betterment depended upon Jap victory. All of them, according to an FBI spokesman, had lavish and expensive costumes, plenty of money. The twoscore black...
...Belgian Congo and Northern Rhodesia are the world's principal sources of cobalt, used in hard steel for toolmaking. Vanadium and manganese, also necessary for steel, come from the Gold Coast and South Africa. Tin comes from Nigeria, industrial diamonds from the fabulous Transvaal mines, rubber from Liberia, copper from the Congo...