Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years I have been president of the American Colonization Society which in 1847 deeded as a free gift to Liberia the entire territory now occupied by that Republic. Consequently, I had more than a perfunctory interest in the recent comment on the Liberian situation (TIME, June 24). Your article contains many undeniable facts but there are some statements that are more picturesque than accurate. For instance, there may be a million rats in Monrovia but I have been there twice and I can only say that I never saw one. Again, you state that the Liberian Government has "never succeeded...
...main point, however, is that the U. S. Government, by its recent formal recognition of Liberia, thus resuming the diplomatic relations which were so unfortunately interrupted five years ago, has insured a complete restoration of the era of good feeling between the U. S. and Liberia which had existed for nearly a century. I believe that this action will contribute immeasurably to the future development and progress of a nation which needs and deserves encouragement. More than this, it will tend to preserve the sovereignty of Liberia against the cupidity of foreign nations which would like nothing better than...
...Subjected His Majesty's Government to Laborite heckling on H.R.H. Edward of Wales's recent plea for stretching forth the hand of friendship to Hitler Germany (TIME, June 24) which went on until Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare declared : "I neither approve nor disapprove...
...Another recent drift was Dictator Stalin's abrupt dissolution of the Society of Old Bolsheviks, hitherto Russia's Communist elite. While many a Communist abroad accused Comrade Stalin of selling true Marxism down Russia's rivers. Comrade Leon Trotsky moved last week from France to Norway, thus putting himself nearer to Communist elements in Russia favorable to the overthrow of Stalin. As the world's greatest living Revolutionist, stern Leon Trotsky has paid no attention to Josef Stalin's arrest in Russia last year of the Great Exile's son Sergei Trotsky...
...standing Soviet proposals for a Russo-Japanese peace pact which would permit the two great powers to demobilize nearly 2,000,000 troops which they now maintain to defend their common frontier. As further proof that Japan's economy is being severely pinched, Fiscal Wizard Takahashi pointed to recent declines in Japanese common stocks of even the most popular munitions companies...