Word: liberia
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...daring to present the word officially at a Downing St. meeting, Premier Hertzog slyly let the word leak to the Press that his Dominion would recommend that the independent Republic of Liberia be seized by force if necessary and handed over to Germany as a League of Nations mandate. Further, according to Premier Hertzog, the Union of South Africa would hand her mandate of Southwest Africa back to Germany also and would recommend that Tanganyika (formerly German East Africa) be given back to Germany as well...
...Liberia. There is no doubt that most British civil servants would like to see some European country administering Liberia. Founded 114 years ago with U. S. help as a home for liberated slaves. Liberia has become the scandal and pesthouse of West Africa. Slavery is rampant in the interior, so is malaria. Both have made inroads in neighboring British and French territory, but the only respectable firm that has ever made serious inroads in Liberia is Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. of Akron, Ohio. Many times in recent years there have been delicate hints that the League of Nations would...
...Government of Liberia resents the very thought of surrendering one iota of its independence...
Southwest Africa. London took the Liberia idea calmly. But not Premier Hertzog's suggestion of giving up Southwest Africa and Tanganyika. Recently back from his visit to Adolf Hitler, Foreign Minister Sir John Simon rose in the House of Commons last week, said...
Lincoln has turned out its fair share of Negro teachers and doctors, more than its share of Negro clergymen. Poet Langston Hughes and Physician Eugene Percy Roberts went there. So did five college presidents, one U. S. Congressman, two U. S. Ministers to Liberia. Many of Lincoln's 300-odd students sing in the glee club, find jobs as waiters at Atlantic City in the summer. Among them are such well-named persons as Benjamin Franklin Coleman, Scipio Solomon Johnson, John Milton Smith, Woodrow Wilson Smithey, James Madison Walden...