Word: liberia
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Garvey urged all Negroes to return to Africa, promised that an expedition would set out for Liberia in October, declared that the Black Star Line had gone out of existence, but that the Black Cross Navigation and Trading Co. would be organized to assist the movement. A new city is to be laid out in Liberia, to be known as "the New Palestine." Cablegrams are to be sent to all the crowned heads of Europe and to the League of Nations, requesting aid in setting up the African Republic-the "United States of Africa," with Liberia and Abyssinia as bases...
Charles D. B. King, President of Liberia, entered upon his second term amid pomp signifying progress. A feature of the ceremonies was a parade headed by the President, his Cabinet, the Judges of the Supreme Court, foreign representatives including Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, colored U. S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. Officers from English and French warships, a native force, well drilled, a company of girl guides added to the occasion...
...Vice President, however, who proved to be the centre of attraction. For the first time a native African holds that office. He is H. Two Wesley, of the Grebo tribe. (President King is of American descent. He was brought to Liberia from Sierra Leone when a child...
...therefore request Your Excellency to receive him favorably and to accept from him the assurance of the high regard and friendship entertained for Your Excellency and the Government and People of Liberia by the Government and People of the United States, and the sincere felicitations which they, and I, in their name, tender to Your Excellency on this auspicious occasion...
...Great and Good Friend in Liberia...