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Bill Taft: “I cordially concur in the views of the Secretary of State and trust that the policy of the United States toward Liberia…”

On the recordMarch 24, 1910
I cordially concur in the views of the Secretary of State and trust that the policy of the United States toward Liberia will be so shaped as to fulfill our national duty to the Liberian people who, by the efforts of this Government and through the material enterprise of American citizens, were established on the African coast and set on the pathway to sovereign statehood.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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