882.124a/111
The Department of State to the British Embassy17
Memorandum
In view of the failure of the Liberian Government to support measures in favor of sanitation and public health, recommended by Surgeon Howard F. Smith, of the United States Public Health Service, who was loaned to Liberia in 1929, to act as Chief Medical Adviser to that country, under the terms of a memorandum agreement negotiated between the American and Liberian Governments a year ago, the [Page 442] American Government has been obliged to conclude that Doctor Smith’s further presence in Liberia cannot be justified. Doctor Smith has accordingly been directed to return to the United States.
- The same on the same date to the French and German Embassies.↩