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...black, wealthy Charles E. Mitchell of West Virginia State College was at the U. S. State Department last week, conferring with Secretary Henry Lewis Stimson, preparing to sail for Monrovia as President Hoover's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the little black Republic of Liberia...
Statesman Stimson showed to Mr. Mitchell, then released publicly for the first time, his recent exchange of notes with the Liberian Government...
...Twin Scourges." Why did Mr. Stimson pick Liberia from the list of lands in which one form or another of slavery still exists?? Plainly because U. S. blacks founded the Republic in 1847, named it "Liberty" (Liberia), named their capital Monrovia, after U. S. President James Monroe...
...days later): The Liberian Government received a note in which Mr. Stimson stigmatized as "shocking" the League's revelation that Liberia's "suppression of natives" is "scarcely distinguishable from slave raising and slave trading...
...International public opinion will no longer tolerate these twin scourges," continued the Stimson note. "Unless they are abolished . . . [there] will result . . . final alienation of the friendly feelings which the American Government and people have entertained for Liberia...