VEROFFENTLICHUNGEN AUS DEM UBERSEE-MUSEUM BREMEN Reihe F Bremer Afrika Archiv Band 17/2 Bremen 1983 Im Selbstverlag des Museums The Open Door Policy of Liberia An Economic History of Modern Liberia R R M. van der Kraaij CONTENTS VOLUME II List of Annexes ii Footnotes 4-61 Introduction 4-61 Chapter 1 . .4-62 Chapter 2 ........ .4-65 Chapter 3 ........ .4-72 Chapter 4- ........ .4-78 Chapter 5 .4-83 Chapter 6 . .4-86 Chapter 7 492 Chapter 8 500 Chapter 9 ........ .509 Chapter 10 ........ .513 Chapter 11 '. .518 Chapter 12 ........ .522 Chapter 13 .528 Annexes 531 Bibliography 662 Curriculum Vitae 703 Index 704. ii LIST OF ANNEXES Page 1 One of the gaps in Liberian History: President Roye's death and his succession 531 2 The Open Door: The question of immigration 533 3 Statement of the public debt 1914-1926 536 4 Public Debt as at August 31, 1926 537 5 Letter dated July 12, 1971 from L. Kwia Johnson, Acting Secretary of the Treasury to A.G. Lund, President, Firestone Plantations Company 538 6 Letter dated October 7, 1969 from W. Edward Greaves, Under Secretary for Revenues to R.F. Dempster, Comptroller, Firestone Plantations Company 539 7 The Planting Agreement of 1926 with amendments of 1935", 1936, 1937, 1939, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1959, 1962 and 1965. 540 8 Summary Table of renegotiation of the 1926 Planting Agreement with Firestone 1974 - 1975 - 1976 551 9 A comparison of four gold and/or diamond mining concession agreements 567 10 The "Columbia Southern Chemical Corporation" concession agreement (1956) and the "Liberian Beach Sands Exploitation Company" mining con- cession agreement (1973). ' 571 11 Financial Performance of the Liberia Mining Company, 1951 - 1977 (in millions of U.S. dollars) 577 12 Summarized mining concession agreements with L.M.C. and N.I.O.C. Ltd. 579 13 Financial Performance of the National Iron Ore Company, 1962 - 1977 (in millions of U.S. dollars) 585 14 Summary Table Mining Concession Agreements LAMCO (1953, 1960, 1974) and LISCO (1967) 587 15 Financial Performance of LAMCO, 1963 - 1977 &n millions of U.S. dollars) 594 16 Financial Performance of LIBETH, 1963 - 1977 (Ln millions of U.S. dollars) 596 17 Financial Performance of the Bong Mining Company, 1965 - 1977 (millions of U.S. dollars) 598 18 Income Tax Provisions and Effective Income Tax Pay- ments of Timber concessions Active as of June 1977 600 19 Master Table Timber Concessions 1957 - 1977 606 20 Some Logging Companies of Less Importance 622 21 Budgetary appropriations 1946, 1951, 1956, 1961 (in thousands of U.S. dollars) 624 22 Imports, duty free imports and potential revenues lost as a result of duty free privileges granted 1975 - 1979 by SITC Group (in millions of U.S. dollars) 627 23 Allocation of resources under the 1967 - 1970 Devel- opment Plan by Sector (in thousands of U.S. dollars) 632 24 Financing of expenditures under the 1967 - 1970 Development Plan (in millions of U.S. dollars) 632 25 Composition of Liberia's direct external debt as of March 31, 1979 (in millions of U.S. dollars) 633 26 Terms of loans contracted between July 1, 1976 and December 31, 1978 634 27 Students enrolled in Government Schools, by county and by schooltype as covered by the National Educa- tion Survey (1978) 636 28 Students enrolled in Missions Schools, by county and by schooltype as covered by the National Educa- tion Survey (1978) 637 29 Students enrolled in other thar Government and Mission Schools, by county and jy schooltype as covered by the National Education Survey (1978) 638 30 Number of Elementary Schools showing highest Grade 6 39 31 Number of Elementary Schools Offering Less than 6th Grade and Number of Schools without a school sylla- bus - as covered by the National Education Survey (1978) 640 32 Number of Trained and Untrained Teachers by Management of Schools (1978) 639 33 Expatriate Teaching Staff by County and by Nationality (1978) 641 34. Untrained and Trained Teachers in Other Than Gov- ernment and Mission Schools - by County (1978) 642 35 Number of Schools and Number of Sessions Operated - by Level of Schools and by County (1978) 643 36 Population, School Attendance, and Literacy Statistics: 1963 and 1974 Compared . 644 37 Port Traffic 1941 - 1943 (long tons) 645 38 Total port traffic by ports 1958 - 1979, selected years (in metric tons) 646 39 International Air Traffic Passengers 1958 - 1979, selected years 648 40 Liberian Exports 1913 and 1917 649 41 Liberia's Balance of Trade 1922 - 1979, selected years (in millions of U.S. dollars) 650 42 Structure of Liberia's Exports 1968 - 1979 (in percentages) 652 IV 43 Major Trading Partners of Liberia 1964 - 1979, selected years (in millions of U.S. dollars) 653 44 Direction of Iron Ore and Percentage Distribution 1977 - 1979 655 45 Value of Imports by Economic End Use 1971 - 1979 (in millions of U.S. dollars) 656 46 Structure of imports by Economic End Use 1971 - 1979 (in percentages) 657 47 Sectoral Origin of G.D.P. at Factor Costs - Current Prices - Monetary Economy 1973 - 1979 (in millions of U.S. dollars) 658 48 Sectoral Origin of G.D.P. at Factor Costs - Current Prices - Monetary Economy 1973 - 1979 (in percentages) 659 49 Sectoral Origin of G.D.P. at Factor Costs - Constant (1971) Prices - Monetary Economy 1973 - 1979 (in millions of U.S. dollars) 660 50 Rice imports 1942 - 1979 661 -461- FOOTNOTES INTRODUCTION 1. The uncertainty with respect to the size of the territory also concerns the administrative subdivisions such as counties, territories a.s.o. Hasselman: 1979, pp. 64-70. 2. Clower: 19&6, p. 3. 3. First Inaugural Address of President Arthur Barclay, January 4, 1904, in: Guannu: 1980, p. 203. 4. First Inaugural Address of President Edwin James Barclay, January 4, 1932, in: Guannu: 1980, p. 292. 5. First Inaugural Address of President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, January 3, 1944, in: Gaannu: 1980, p. 321. 6. First Inaugural Address of President Arthur Barclay, January 4, 1904, in: Guannu: 1980, p. 191.. • 7. First Inaugural Address of President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, January 3, 1944, in: Guannu: 1980, p.3H'-t3i2. 8. During the Tubman era (1944-1971) members of the Tubman, Pad- more, Barnes, Brewer, Grimes, Sherman, Weeks, Anderson and Tancy families climbed high on the political latter. After Vice-President William Tolbert succeeded President Tubman in 1971, they were replaced by members of the Tolbert elan: the Tolbert, Hoff, David, McClain, Holder and Pierre families. Both Tubman and Tolbert used Liberians of tribal descent, to broaden their political base and to compensate for the loss of support from some Americo-Liberian families by giv- ing them high positions in their Government or even cabinet posts. 9. First Inaugural Address of President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, January 3, 1944, in: Guannu: 1980, p. 319. 10. See Bibliography. 11. Presidential Papers: July 23, 1971-July 31, 1972; p. 556. 12. See Bibliography for the full titles of the works of these authors. 13. This opinion does not seem to be inconsistent with what is expressed by Lowenkopf (1976) in a .recent political study on Liberia: "(.,.) tie. (Tubman) paved the way fon a pe.ane.-f.al tnanAition into the. mode/in Ae.ci.osi 6-y those tn.ii.al people, who wen.e needed to man the. new concessions and to se/iuice the new industries. ( . , .) These two aspects o-f change., economic and political, wen.e interdependent. But if economic g/iowth has been the. pn.en.eauisite on. -foundation o-f political modenn- ization - a* I maintain - then it mutt alto be noted that the latte/i lagged {.an. tehind the -f.on.men.. (...)" p, 46. 14. Second Inaugural Address of President Edwin James Barclay, January 6, 1936, in: Guannu: 1980, p. 302-303. 15. Townsend: 1969, p. 332. -462- FOOTNOTES CHAPTER 1 1. Niane and Suret-Canale: 1961; p. 13. 2. Karnga: 1926; p. 1. 3. Karnga: 1926; pp. 3-5. 4. Karnga: 1926; p. 11. Karnga uses the denominations Kpese for Kpelle, Mendi in stead of Mende; Gbopoes, Gedeboes and Gruvos refer to the Grebos and Maa to the Manos. Other authors have spelt the names of the Liberian tribes differently. Roberts et al. mention (1972, p.51) the following alternatives: Malinke (Mandingo), Gbande or Bandi (Gbandi), Kpessi or Kpwesi (Kpelle], Dan (Gio), Ma or Mah (Mano), Kissi or Gissi (Kisi), De or Dey (Dei) and Krou or Kruman (Kru). 5. An account of a fight between members of the Bush Grebo and Seaside Grebos which occurred in September 1976 in the capital is given in The Liberian Age, Sept. 10, 1976, p. 2 ("Police Quell Grebo Rioters"). 6. The name Vai is probably a corruption of the word Umvalli, as the leader of this group was called. Karnga: 1926; p. 11. 7. Niane and Suret-Canale: 1961; pp. 47 - 51 and Karnga: 1926; p. 12. 8. Harry Johnston: 1906; Vol. 1, p. 18. 9. Johnston: 1906; pp. 49 - 52. 10. Rodney: 1972; pp. 103 - 112. 11. Johnston: 1906; pp. 71 - 74. 12. Johnston: 1906; pp. 83 - 104, and Cassell, 1970; p. 310. 13. Huberich: 1947; Vol. 1, p. 24. The Governor of the Indiana State Board of Colonization in the U.S.A. in 1855 motivated the support of the colonization efforts as follows: "(...) Ue must look to this land fon. the elevation of the African, fon. the separation of the white and colored races, and for the removal Or mitigation of a great source of evil, I recommend that you continue the annual appropriation for the cause of colonization (,,,)", in: "Qovernor's (Message delivered to the Qeneral Assembly of the State of Indiana, January 4, 7855," 14.