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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...
...correspondents last week Secretary Stimson made clear that he was not fooling, that he and President Hoover are aroused, that U. S. Minister Mitchell goes to Monrovia to make clean a filthy mess...
...Supposing, in view of President Hoover's note of Nov. 1, that Secretary Stimson was only fooling in his note of Nov. 17, the Liberian Government waited, hoping for the best until Dec. 5, on which date President King and Vice President Yancy resigned...
League Report. There is nothing new in the League report on Liberian slave conditions. It is important because it exonerates the U. S. Firestone rubber interests of slaving. This was most important to Secretary Stimson. If he had whitewashed Firestone while tarring Liberia, the whole thing might have looked queer to Europe, queerer to Latin America...
That magic sentence untied Secretary Stimson's hands, enabled him to swish Liberia for President Hoover as he swished Nicaragua for President Coolidge...