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Liberia's True Whig Party President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman did not hear about the trouble right away. He was busy on one of his frequent trips along the coast.* In Monrovia, Secretary of State Gabriel Dennis regretted the incident, was sure accounts were exaggerated, handsomely offered U.S. armed forces the protection of Liberian armed forces...
...Played host to such distinguished foreign visitors as Madame Chiang Kaishek. Winston Churchil. Liberia's President Edwin Barclay and President-elect W.V.S. Tubman...
...noon, dapper, coal-black President-elect William Vacarat Shadrach Tubman took over from President Roosevelt's onetime host and guest, Edwin J. Barclay (TIME, June 7). Then the new President knelt to ask the blessing of God upon his people. His lazy drawl poured out over the multitude, reminding all that Liberia had been founded under God and on Christian principles...
Last week President Tubman took his first important official step: his Government declared war on Germany and Japan...
...Liberia's elected rulers have sometimes acted on other principles. In 1930, a League of Nations Commission accused former (1928) Vice President Allen N. Yancey of conniving with other Liberian officials to pawn hundreds of native laborers into near-slavery. Tubman was Yancey's legal adviser...