LIBERIA AND BRAZIL
VISITS MADE BY MR.
ROOSEVELT
LONDON, January 29. A White House statement issued in Washington reveals that alter the Casablanca conference President Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill motored 150 miles south to Marrakesh and spent the night at the foot of the Atlas Mountains. Two days later the President and party flew on in army transport planes to Liberia, the Africa negro republic nearly 1800 miles further south, where President Roosevelt conferred with the president of the republic, Mr. Edwin Barclay. It is not known whether the President stopped at Dakar on his way to Liberia, but the White House statement says one intermediate stop was made, and Washington circles suggest it might well have been Dakar; <--:. From Liberia the President went to Brazil, where he conferred with President Vargas. The meeting took place in the little city of Natal, which is closer to Africa than any other point on the American continent.. An announcement on these talks is expected when President Vargas returns to Rio. '-. ..
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 25, 30 January 1943, Page 7
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