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...have slipped a cog in its story (TIME, Aug. 4) on Liberia's 100th anniversary. You tell us that Liberia was founded by the American Colonization Society "as a home for freed slaves from the U.S."; and you tell us that Liberia's current President is named Tubman; but you never tie these two facts together. If you did, you might find they had an exceedingly interesting background...
...human bondage that she started an "underground" movement of slaves across the border into free Pennsylvania . . . and later to Canada. ... As her fame grew, Northern Abolitionists supplied her with funds and advice. She became, in time, the most famous Negro woman in U.S. history. . . . Her name was Harriet Tubman...
When President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman wanted his Executive Mansion refurbished for last week's 100th anniversary of Liberian independence, he applied to a Manhattan department store, R. H. Macy's. "We went and got," said Macy's Decorator in Chief Betty Gallagher Ormsby, "everything." That included bedspreads, crystal goblets, hand-cut chandeliers, a merry-go-round, toothpick frills, a steak masticator, a fish refrigerator, a headboard of pale café-au-lait satin for President Tubman's bed. From Monrovia, capital of Africa's only Negro republic, Macy's was flooded by radiograms...
...That Man." World War II brought changes. The U.S. established an airport (Roberts Field, now not in use) and a seaplane base at Fisherman's Lake.* President Tubman, an energetic, intelligent lawyer, now works tirelessly to carry out social and technological reforms. He champions the natives against the frock-coated, white-helmeted elite of Americo-Liberians, to whom he is known as "That Man in the Executive Mansion...
...Dazzled by the late Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom he met in wartime, President Tubman wants to give Liberia's lagging political institutions a new deal, has already sponsored such progressive measures as votes for women and an income tax. Ranging far from his capital, Monrovia, Tub man keeps an eye on district commissioners and frontier forces, sometimes sacks them for "malfeasance, misfeasance and unfeasance...