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To carry through their part of the agreement, the American group undertakes the following:
1. The development of a mass campaign to bring pressure upon the United States government to modify its demands on Liberia. This campaign is already under way and is being accompanied by the most cunning demagogy. The cry is being raised that "the integrity and freedom of Liberia is being menaced by England and France". Whereas, in fact, the League of Nations Plan, which, as we have seen, really represents the interests of American imperialism and Harvey Firestone, is cunningly represented as a threat against Liberian "independence", not by American imperialism, but by British and French imperialism. The campaign is being accompanied by strenuous appeals to race solidarity, unity of a darker races; hypocritical pleas are being made to the Negro peoples to rally to the defense of the "last stronghold of Negro freedom", etc., etc. 
2. This campaign is to be connected with the raising of $150,000 among the Negro masses in this country "to assist the Liberian government in its present difficulties". This, we are informed, will show "good faith on the part of the American Negro in his desire to help Liberia". 
3. These pretentious schemes are to be carried through by a "nationwide organization comprising the heads of all organizations now interested in Liberia, also churches, lodges, civic and business organizations", on the basis of a Ten-Year Program. The next immediate step is the organization of a delegation of "prominent" Negroes to intercede with President Roosevelt and the State Department on "behalf" of Liberia and to persuade them to accept the above Plan in lieu of the Plan of the League of Nations. 
Let us examine the rosy utopia presented in this program. Does this plan actually aim at the freedom of the Liberian people? Let us see. 
This Liberian-American movement, which parades under
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the slogan of "freedom of Liberia", is in actuality a scheme for fastening the yoke of American imperialism and its reactionary bourgeois puppets still tighter upon the backs of the Liberian masses. It is an attempt to deceive the Negro toilers in the U.S.A. into a scheme directed to maintain the subjugation of the Liberian people by American imperialism. At the same time, under the cloak of promoting the welfare of the Negro masses in the United States, the Liberian-American Plan is but another device on the part of the Negro bourgeoisie to further their own reactionary class interests at the expense of the masses of Negro toilers. 

Let us have no illusions. The strivings of the Negro bourgeoisie and petty-bourgeois intellectuals for economic expansion are not directed against American imperialism; on the contrary, every one of these schemes fully coincides with the interests of American imperialism. The Negro bourgeoisie fully understands that its class interests are bound up with the maintenance if American imperialism, that its only hope for development is under the wings of the latter. Therefore, the supporters of this plan do not question the right of American imperialism as a chief slaveholder of the Liberian masses; on the contrary, the carrying through of the Plan includes the active support of American imperialism, which, in their own terms, is depicted as "Big brother of the Liberian people". William N. Jones and his friends merely offer their services together with the Liberian bourgeoisie as overseers of American imperialist interests in Liberia. Thus the Liberian-American Plan is an active instrument for the further expansion of American imperialism in Liberia as well as in Africa as a whole. Mr. Jones makes this very clear in his column in the Baltimore Afro-American. He says:
"... if our own 'brain trust' in Washington is alert, it will make a strenuous effort to see that our government takes enough