Word: liberia
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...Salvador de Madariaga in Geneva. At first inclined to recommend that Italy be given a status over Ethiopia similar to that which Britain holds over the nominally independent Kingdom of Irak, the Committee finally decided to recommend for Ethiopia the status recommended by the League two years ago for Liberia and indignantly refused by that Negro Republic...
...admit that there are many things in Liberia that demand improvement?that Monrovia is still primitive without a water supply, sewage disposal, pavements or telephones, and that the few and dim electric lights only emphasize the darkness of the tropic night. I had no sympathy with, and in fact publicly criticized, the action of Liberia in regard to a just debt but that matter has now been straightened out. It is also true that there is but one semblance of a road in the Republic, outside the Firestone plantation, but the Government is now building a thoroughfare through the interior...
...main point, however, is that the U. S. Government, by its recent formal recognition of Liberia, thus resuming the diplomatic relations which were so unfortunately interrupted five years ago, has insured a complete restoration of the era of good feeling between the U. S. and Liberia which had existed for nearly a century. I believe that this action will contribute immeasurably to the future development and progress of a nation which needs and deserves encouragement. More than this, it will tend to preserve the sovereignty of Liberia against the cupidity of foreign nations which would like nothing better than...
...Henry Litchfield West, 75, oldtime Washington newsman, president of the Gridiron Club (1900), onetime Commissioner of the District of Columbia, all thanks for readable footnotes on Liberia...
...quiet the hopefully palpitating hearts of a multitude of U. S. Negroes, the President last week named a Minister to Liberia, which his State Department recently recognized (TIME, June 24). His choice: Lester A. Walton, 54, newshawk of his father-in-law's New York Age, formerly writer for the defunct New York World. He visited Monrovia two years ago, was presented with a leopard skin by Liberia's President Barclay, attended sessions of the International Liberian Com-mission at Geneva. Clean shaven, bald, a modest family man, he will now return to Liberia taking his wife...