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Hagerstown, Md., which shamed the nation in March when the local Howard Johnson restaurant refused to serve Dr. William Fitzjohn, then chargé d'affaires from Sierra Leone, mended its offenses last week. After inviting the visitor back to town (just before his departure to become High Commissioner to the Court of St. James's), Mayor Winslow F. Burhans met the police-escorted motorcade at the city limits, later honored the colorfully draped Fitzjohn at a banquet attended by 200 of Hagerstown's most prominent citizens, including 30 Negro couples. Also gracing the town's first...
...outside because "colored people are not allowed to eat in here." That was four years ago. Since then, one African diplomat has been turned away from a Virginia drive-in theater. Another, with his daughter, was stopped at the gate of a Maryland amusement park. Last month, Dr. William Fitzjohn, charge d'affaires of newly emerging Sierra Leone, was snubbed out of another Howard Johnson restaurant, this one in Hagerstown, Md. In recent weeks, according to U.S. State Department reports, diplomatic staffers from Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Liberia, Cameroun and Ethiopia have suffered indignities of various sorts because...
...battle he describes, in command of a Massachusett's regiment, we believe. He has written a book covering the subject, which has been reserved in the library for the use of those who wish to investigate the subject more particularly. He has made an especial study of the FitzJohn Porter case, and in his lecture will discuss the case in some detail...
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