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Shocked and grieved by the League of Nations' report that slavery exists in the black Republic of Liberia (TIME, Jan. 19), Negro editors throughout the U. S. last week drove their typewriters hard...
...United States might eventually be forced to occupy Liberia by treaty, as it did Haiti; in which event, one important difference should recommend itself to the Government: The occupying force should consist of Negro soldiers and Negro officers, instead of brutal, arrogant, prejudiced white Marines. Intelligent Negro officers are available on the reserve list, and they could bring to their task of ending slavery a sympathy and a tact that were conspicuously missing in the American occupation of Haiti...
That magic sentence untied Secretary Stimson's hands, enabled him to swish Liberia for President Hoover as he swished Nicaragua for President Coolidge...
Grand old Liberian facts, confirmed by the League: 1) No slave markets exist in Liberia, but forced labor indistinguishable from slavery is used on nearly all Government works, frequently diverted to private works by corrupt officials; 2) Children are "pawned" by their parents to work until the parent's debt is discharged; 3) Contract laborers are shipped to French Congo, Spanish Fernando, "under conditions of criminal compulsion...
...Slavery, by Lady Kathleen Simon (wife of Sir John), London, 1929 (Hodder & Stoughton). Her well-documented slavelands list: Abyssinia, Afghanistan, Arabia, Sierra Leone, Liberia; also ("modified slavery") Portuguese East Africa, Portugal's West African Islands St. Thome & Principe, French Equatorial Africa, Tanganyika etc. Lord Cecil recently estimated that there are at least 5,000,000 human slaves today. Liberia's estimated population, including freemen...