882.001 Barclay, Edwin/3a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Liberia (Reber)
Washington, December 8, 1930—7
p.m.
114. Department’s telegrams Nos. 110 and 111. The Department has just received a note, dated December 6, from Lyon, Liberian Consul General, informing it of the resignation of President and Vice President and that “Barclay was sworn in as President of the Republic in accordance with the Constitution of the Republic on the third instant.”
[Paraphrase.] For the present no acknowledgment will be made. [End paraphrase.]
Stimson