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Arrived in Manhattan the Honorable Edwyn Barclay, Secretary of State of Liberia.* He was met by Henry Carter, an aggressive junior in the State Department at Washington, who represented U. S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg...
...Liberia. My mission in this, my first visit to America, is to endeavor to cement the friendship between the two countries...
...Firestone has not, however, remained idle. He has organized a mid-western group of important interests and has practically concluded negotiations for a large concession in Liberia, Africa, to locate new rubber plantations. Along with the concession, railways and roads would be built and the finances of the Liberian Government would be assisted for internal improvements. Liberia will, in fact, soon send a Loan Commission to Manhattan. Under the Liberian law, no white foreigner can own land-the result of a policy of "Africa for the Africans"-and the Firestone concession is said, therefore, to be based on a long...
...sent no immigrants are a few of the minor ones with quotas of 100; a roster of nowheres: Afghanistan, British Cameroon, Nepal, New Guinea, Ruanda and Urundi, Tanganyika, Yap, to which number should probably be added the countries on which no report has been made at all: Andorra, Ethiopia, Liberia, Muscat, Nauru, Siam, the Togolands (British and French). Practically within this group are countries which have sent less than five immigrants : Arabian Peninsula, French Cameroon, Japan,* Monaco, Samoa, Southwest Africa...
...late Alajor Charles Young of the U. S. Army, for service in organizing the Liberian Constabulary and developing roads in the Republic of Liberia...