Word: liberians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Liberian Government learned that President Hoover had cabled to the Emperor of Abyssinia, sovereign of the greatest slave nation of the world, congratulations on his coronation (TIME, Nov. 10), declaring "on behalf of the American People and Government . . . confidence that the traditional ties of friendship and mutual understanding which so happily exist between our two countries . . . will be strengthened during your majesty's reign...
...days later): The Liberian Government received a note in which Mr. Stimson stigmatized as "shocking" the League's revelation that Liberia's "suppression of natives" is "scarcely distinguishable from slave raising and slave trading...
...Supposing, in view of President Hoover's note of Nov. 1, that Secretary Stimson was only fooling in his note of Nov. 17, the Liberian Government waited, hoping for the best until Dec. 5, on which date President King and Vice President Yancy resigned...
League Report. There is nothing new in the League report on Liberian slave conditions. It is important because it exonerates the U. S. Firestone rubber interests of slaving. This was most important to Secretary Stimson. If he had whitewashed Firestone while tarring Liberia, the whole thing might have looked queer to Europe, queerer to Latin America...
Grand old Liberian facts, confirmed by the League: 1) No slave markets exist in Liberia, but forced labor indistinguishable from slavery is used on nearly all Government works, frequently diverted to private works by corrupt officials; 2) Children are "pawned" by their parents to work until the parent's debt is discharged; 3) Contract laborers are shipped to French Congo, Spanish Fernando, "under conditions of criminal compulsion...