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...troubles of the League of Nations were augmented last week by the fact that, in Liberia, Mr. Barclay and Mr. Mitchell are no longer on speaking terms. All official communications from the U. S. and Liberian Governments on the subject of Liberia's decision to suspend payments on a $2,250,000 loan from Finance Corp. of America (subsidiary of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.) had to be relayed through the French Government...
...French Minister, the Liberian Secretary of State delivered a protest...
...Liberian Government cannot disregard this snub which it regards as an insult. It cannot find it possible to continue to afford Minister Mitchell the courtesy, official or unofficial, which he hitherto has enjoyed. Will the French Government convey this message to Washington...
...Liberian Barclay. There being no general world interest in the black Liberian Republic, no white correspondent is maintained in Monrovia. No Negro paper has a regular cable news service from Liberia. Therefore the U. S. State Department is the chief U. S. source of Liberian news. Last week the big white State Department announced that Liberians had elected as their President big black Edwin Barclay...
...London Times took time out to recall that so long ago as 1898 Hilaire Belloc penned these lines,* supposed to have been uttered by a fictitious U. S.-born, blackskinned Liberian Lord Chief Justice...