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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBERIA: The Wicked Flee | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

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