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...product, not because there are 22 varieties of rubber trees and plants growing in the jungle, but because there is one rubber plantation recently established, which brought 1,200 acres of rubber plantation into production last year. Over it all rules His Excellency Charles D. B. King, President of Liberia...
...American looked upon this country and said: "It is ideal." He was Harvey S. Firestone, President of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. He had Edwin Barclay, Secretary of State of Liberia, go to the U. S. and together they drew up a pact which was satisfactory to the U. S. Department of State...
Under its terms Mr. Firestone's engineers will explore Liberia, choose 1,000,000 acres of land best suited to his purposes. The land will be cleared and rubber trees will be planted. Meanwhile a U. S. firm has been engaged to build a breakwater at Monrovia, and give Liberia its first harbor. The Firestone Plantations Co. will build roads, houses and improve sanitary conditions. Some 300,000 natives who never before had any employment, except carrying great baskets on their heads, will be hired. A force of Americans will be sent over to superintend the job; food, household furniture...
...Firestone began to plan for getting a U. S. rubber supply. He sent investigators to the Philippines, but they reported adverse and unsettled political conditions. He sent them to Mexico and Central America and they reported the same. (He is nevertheless experimenting in Mexico.) He sent one to Liberia and he reported that he had never seen so perfect a place for rubber growing?good soil, good climate, comparative freedom from disease, undeveloped country, cheap land, abundant labor at rates even cheaper than in the Malay Peninsula. That is how the plan originated...
...seemed to give a thought M. Quinones de Leon. It was noted by the bustling clerks at the Secretariat that the Liberian minister at Paris had addressed a note to the League conveying his nation's adherence to the recent Arms Control convention and strongly emphasizing that Liberia was a sovereign and independent republic. It was noted that Angora had designated Rushdi Bey, Turkish Foreign Minister to attend the Councils meeting and do battle for Turkeys side of the Mosul question. It was even noted that William Slocum ot Boston, resident in Geneva, had denied that...