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...minor incident highlighted a serious problem last week. Liberian airfield workers just could not grasp the U.S. logic in shutting down a nice strategic base like Roberts Field, on the west bulge of Africa. They missed their regular pay. The Army had buttoned up the big Air Transport base at the end of March and left a handful of G.I. guards to hold off the exuberant jungle and its prowlers from the runways and buildings...
...atomic bombs in the basement. ¶ The Argentine envoys, who arrived early and ensconced themselves at the Waldorf-Astoria, excited the envy of other Latin American delegations unable to find lodgings on Park Avenue. The British were at Essex House, handy for early-morning constitutionals in Central Park. The Liberian delegation found the color line nonexistent at Brooklyn's elegant St. George. The astonishingly anonymous-looking U.S. delegation (see cut) had a whole floor at the Pennsylvania. ¶ Senator Connally, with more than 150 other westbound diplomats, was on the Queen Elizabeth, making its first peacetime voyage (see BUSINESS...
...January midday sun poured down on Monrovia's Matilda Newport Square, named for Liberia's Joan of Arc. Sweat trickled down 20,000 Liberian backs, stood in heavy drops on the foreheads of notables who were clustered in the shade of a palm-leaf booth. Five little girls in white-frilled ginghams held wreaths emblazoned with the names of Liberia's five counties. Six brass bands blared hard and the Liberian National Choir waited its turn. The tiny African Republic, founded for freed slaves from the U.S., was ready for the inaugural of its 17th President...
...Liberia's elected rulers have sometimes acted on other principles. In 1930, a League of Nations Commission accused former (1928) Vice President Allen N. Yancey of conniving with other Liberian officials to pawn hundreds of native laborers into near-slavery. Tubman was Yancey's legal adviser...
...Sullivan, as much seaman as airman, said no to all offers. He left Pan American, left his country. Few weeks later airmen heard that Rod Sullivan was the master of a Portuguese coastwise steamer. More recently they heard that he had gone to Africa, was working for the Liberian American Development Co. on the steaming West Coast. No one knew for certain...