Word: liberian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Monrovia, capital of Liberia, last week came word of a U.S. gesture that greatly gratified all patriotic Liberians. From a U.S. warship which recently anchored off the capital, sailors brought ashore a tiny Liberian flag. (The Liberian flag: eleven red and white horizontal stripes, a single white star on a blue field.) Handkerchief-size, it was pieced together from the tatters of the first Liberian flag, which had been preserved...
Inspired by the gift, Monrovia staged a historic pageant reenacting the raising of the first Liberian flag 94 years ago. Before two top-hatted, frock-coated personages representing the first President and Vice President of Liberia,* the flag was raised and a chorus of schoolgirls (see cut) sang...
...Liberian girls...
First act: Warned of a Nazi plot to assassinate him and take over the Government, Liberia's longtime President, short, scholarly-looking Edwin James Barclay, called the N.C.O.s of the 1,000-man Liberian Frontier Force into secret conclave. Next day, as Nazi leaflets fluttered in the streets, the N.C.O.s rounded up eleven men, including the ringleader, a fat, German-trained mathematician, Professor Massaquoi of Liberia College. Trumpeted President Barclay: "Am I a chicken? They were to move on me in the night, but I moved on them...