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Between Sierra Leone and the Ivory Coast, there stretches 350 miles of junglous coastline. Back of it, for some 200 miles into the interior of Africa, there are great jungles, and 2,000,000 Negroes and 120 white men. About 50,000 of the Negroes are civilized and run an independent sovereign republic and have done so for 78 years. They speak English. They elect a President, a Senate and a House of Representatives They have a Cabinet consisting of a Secretary of State, a Secretary of the Treasury, a...

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