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...Received a dressing-down administered by Liberian Representative Dr. Antoine Sottile (Italian-born...
Simultaneously President Hoover's new Minister of Liberia, big, black, wealthy Charles E. Mitchell† sailed from Manhattan for Monrovia; but the State Department hinted that Minister Mitchell will not present his diplomatic credentials until the Liberian Government takes satisfactory steps to stamp out slavery...
...Thus the Liberian Government through its representative officially ignored for the second time a suggestion made by U. S. Statesman Stimson in his recent exchange of notes: namely, that the Liberian Government should pledge itself to act on the League recommendations and further pledge to take no retaliatory measures against Liberians who testified before the League commission, incriminated the highest Liberian officials...
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...
...season their 200 weary pages, the League's commissioners added a few spicy details, stories of rapes, torturings, floggings, soldiers "who amused themselves by collecting one by one the hairs of the chief's long mustache." Liberian slavers have two favorite tortures, the commission reported, known respectively as "Getting the Basket" and "Putting in the Kitchen." In the first a large round basket is filled with earth and stones. It is then placed on the head of the victim who is made to turn round and round. The basket is occasionally twitched the wrong way, causing broken necks...