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...only foreign capital named after a U. S. President-Monrovia of Liberia- Frederick Pomeroy Hibbard, a white Texan who for 15 years has been running diplomatic errands for the U. S. State Department, last week looked into the face of a pale chocolate-colored, mustachioed little Negro and addressed him as "Your Excellency." Liberia's President Edwin Barclay visibly swelled with satisfaction. Legation Secretary Hibbard was informing him that the U. S. was, after a five year break, granting diplomatic recognition to Liberia. In Washington Secretary of State Hull also swelled with satisfaction: he had shown that...
...several reasons a bad diplomatic situation in Liberia is usually much worse than a bad situation anywhere else: 1) Political respect for 12,000,000 U. S. Negroes requires that the post of U. S. Minister to Liberia shall be held by a Negro, and having a Negro Minister, though stoutly backstopped by a white legation Secretary, does not simplify the art of diplomacy. 2) When the Secretary of State wants to send an emissary to Liberia, he is lucky if there is a ship sailing for the African West Coast within a month, luckier still if the emissary reaches...
...indeed to the ghosts of the Earl of Chatham, Henry Clay, Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott to realize that the only place in the world where the name Whig still denotes a political party is among the blackamoors of Liberia. Whig, or Whiggamore was a Scots-Gaelic word originally applied to horse thieves, but because Liberia's independence was first proclaimed during the period of Whig supremacy in the U. S., Liberian politicians find Whig a most potent name to call themselves. Liberians went to the polls fortnight ago for the first Liberian presidential election in 4 years. Last...
...Liberia's Whigs, True or Unit, are all archconservatives, ardent nationalists and enemies of European cooperation. Election over, Liberian authorities had a chance to turn their attention to an idea which had recently popped from the head of Premier Hertzog of South Africa. Said Chairman Thomas Jesse Jones of the Advisory Committee on Education in Liberia...
...Liberia is now in a position to establish a closer bond of friendship between the republic and the United States, an alliance which should protect it from threatened dangers from without, such as the recent suggestion that Liberia be mandated by Germany...