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...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...
Declaration of war on the Axis seemed inevitable. Most Liberians more than approved of this. But they could not help remembering how, after they declared war on Germany last time, a U-boat came along and bombarded tiny Monrovia, their capital...
...wish I could round out this report by telling you the latest news about Henry B. Cole, our native correspondent on the Guinea Coast, but we last heard from him three months ago in Monrovia. He has worked for TIME three years now, sending us all sorts of unexpected stories and interesting sidelights on the echoes of World War II in his bailiwick. In addition he is Associate Editor of "Who's Who in Liberia" and the author of something he calls "A Classic: God and the Negro"-and all in all we have grown so fond...
...Monrovia, Calif...
...route will go from New York City (with Baltimore as alter nate) to San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Port of Spain, Trinidad, to Belem and Natal, Brazil. Then it will hop 1,800 miles - not quite the span from Newfoundland to Ireland - across the Atlantic to Monrovia, Liberia (Bathurst, Gambia and Freetown, Sierra Leone as alternates), will hug the hump of Africa as far as Nigeria, then cut across to Khartoum and perhaps eventually to Cairo. Across Africa, Pan Am planned direction finders, hangars, fields, communications and weather stations, resthouses. Priorities for the necessary materials are expected to be granted...