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Sleek, black President Charles Dunbar Burgess King of the West African Negro Republic of Liberia came to Paris last week, vacationing after the exhausting campaign which resulted in his election to the Presidency for a third term (TIME, May 23). Parisian reporters called President King "representative of that type of African who is outwardly Europeanized, but is still at heart a fine, genuine black." Beaming, President King told these newsgatherers how heartily he welcomes the great U. S. Firestone rubber plantation development in Liberia (TIME...
...delighted! Dee-lighted!" said Mr. King in English.* "The Firestone lease occupies only about 1/25 of our rubber lands; and, personally, I like to think of Liberia as the gateway to West Africa by which American capital, manufactures and opinions may enter and spread across all Africa...
...official language of Liberia...
...Liberia Bella, you are trampled, you are ravished! . . . Will no one but Zaniboni cry 'Long live Liberty...
Clarence S. Darrow's forecast for Negroes, as revealed to Negroes at Washington, D. C., last week, contradicted Dr. Hankins. Said Amateur Sociologist Darrow: "The [Negro] breed is not running out. They are here and are here to stay. They are not going to Liberia. The white people don't want them to go. If the colored people should try to leave in any general exodus in any Southern state, they would probably be met by force to keep them where they are. Somebody has got to work. We Nordics are not going...