882.6176 F 51/207: Telegram
Mr. Harvey S. Firestone to President King of Liberia61
[Akron,
Ohio, December 19,
1925.]
Ross advises that press reports stating we expect employment thirty thousand Americans to supervise plantations has had unfavourable reaction in Liberia. I assure you this is only newspaper story. Actual facts are we will not send one hundred Americans or Europeans to Liberia in 1926 and at no time could we possibly use over one thousand or fifteen hundred for entire development. My regards to yourself Secretary Barclay and best wishes for very happy holiday season.
Harvey S.
Firestone
- Copy transmitted to the Department by the Chargé in Liberia under covering despatch of Mar. 13, 1926; received Apr. 15, 1926.↩