882.6176 F 51/49b: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Liberia (Hood)
19. Please hand to President King the following personal message from Mr. Firestone:
“In view of present advantageous conditions for raising capital for rubber cultivation, it is imperative that formal ratification of loan to be negotiated with Secretary Barclay be made at an early date. Accordingly, I suggest that a call for special session of legislature be issued now as I understand four to six weeks are required for it to assemble after call. In this way prompt consideration can be given proposed loan, the terms of which will be cabled to Liberian Government through American State Department.
Capital cannot be raised nor our operations started until loan is ratified by legislature and I therefore urge you to give favorable consideration to this suggestion. Harvey S. Firestone.”
Please inform Mr. Gile51 of Firestone’s message to King.
- Firestone representative in Liberia.↩