E. D. Morel, the Man and His Work |
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administration Affairs of West amongst annexation appeared Arthur Conan Doyle Belgian Belgium Birkenhead Birkenhead Liberal Britain British Government Chapter civilization Colonial commercial Committee concessionaires Congo Free Congo Reform Association course Daily Chronicle declared Democratic Control E. D. Morel Elder Dempster European fact force Foreign Office Foreign Policy France Free Trade French Congo friends Germany Gold Coast honour House of Commons human Ibid important interests journal King Leopold King Leopold's Rule labour land tenure Leopoldian letter Liverpool Lord ment Morel's view Morocco Morocco in Diplomacy native rights Nigeria pamphlet Paris Parliament Pierre Mille political Powers President Press principle problem published question Rabinek races Romain Rolland rubber Rule in Africa says Morel Secret Diplomacy Secretary sent Sir Charles Dilke Sir Edward Grey Society speech territory tion to-day tribute tropical Africa Truth Union of Democratic Vandervelde West Africa whilst whole wrote
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Page 110 - Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Page 115 - I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of...
Page 250 - The establishment of an organization of peace which shall make it certain that the combined power of free nations will check every invasion of right and serve to make peace and justice the more secure by affording a definite tribunal of opinion to which all must submit and by which every international readjustment that cannot be amicably agreed upon by the peoples directly concerned shall be sanctioned.
Page 218 - The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land ; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.
Page 181 - The Government of the French Republic declare that they have no intention of altering the political status of Morocco.
Page 224 - The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.
Page 61 - All the Powers exercising sovereign rights or influence in the aforesaid territories bind themselves to watch over the preservation of the native tribes, and to care for the improvement of the conditions of their moral and material well-being, and to help in suppressing slavery, and especially the Slave Trade.
Page 181 - remain firmly attached to the integrity of the Moorish Empire under the sovereignty of the Sultan," and on the part of Spain a declaration of adherence to the Anglo-French Declaration of April 8.
Page 214 - As has been repeatedly stated, this country is not under any obligation, not public and known to Parliament, which compels it to take part in a war. In other words, if a war arises between European Powers, there are no unpublished agreements which will restrict or hamper the freedom of the Government or Parliament to decide whether or not Great Britain should participate in a...
Page 95 - That the government of the Congo Free State, having, at its inception, guaranteed to the powers that its native subjects should be governed with humanity, and that no trading monopoly or privilege should be permitted within its dominions...