Book/Printed Material The crime of the Congo,
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- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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Image 5 of The crime of the Congo, THE CRIME OF THE CONGO
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- Date: 1909
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Image 7 of The crime of the Congo, The Crime of the Congo By A. Conan Doyle Author of The Great Boer War, etc., etc. New York Doubleday, Page Company Mcmix
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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Image 8 of The crime of the Congo, y ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE COMPANY PUBLISHED, NOVEMBER, 1909 COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY A. CONAN DOYLE GU2515!
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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Image 9 of The crime of the Congo, PREFACE There are many of us in England who consider the crime which has been wrought in the Congo lands by King Leopold of Belgium and his followers to be the greatest…
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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Image 10 of The crime of the Congo, iv PREFACE Turkey has several times been interfered with simply on the general ground of humanity. There is in this instance a very special reason why America and England should not stand…
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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Image 11 of The crime of the Congo, PREFACE v We English who are earnest over this matter look eagerly to the westward to see some sign of moral support of material leading. It would be a grand sight to…
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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- Date: 1909
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Image 13 of The crime of the Congo, INTRODUCTION I am convinced that the reason why public opinion has not been more sensitive upon the question of the Congo Free State, is that the terrible story has not been brought…
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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Image 14 of The crime of the Congo, viii INTRODUCTION One chance Belgium had. If immediately upon taking over the State they had formed a Judicial Commission for the rigid inspection of the whole matter, with power to punish for…
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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Image 15 of The crime of the Congo, INTRODUCTION ix exposing these iniquities Or, lastly, is France the danger There are those who think that because France has capital invested in these enterprises, because the French Congo has itself degenerated…
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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- Date: 1909
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Image 17 of The crime of the Congo, CONTENTS Preface Introduction How the Congo Free State Came to be Founded The Development of the Congo State The Working of the System First Fruits of the System Further Fruits of the…
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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- Date: 1909
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- Date: 1909
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Image 21 of The crime of the Congo, The Crime of the Congo HOW THE CON€0 FREE STATE CAME TO BE FOUNDED N THE earlier years of his reign King Leopold of Belgium began to display that interest in Central…
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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Image 22 of The crime of the Congo, 4 THE CRIME OF THE CONGO to justify their conduct toward them, that Stanley had the very highest opinion of their industry and commercial ability. The following extracts from his writings set…
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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Image 23 of The crime of the Congo, HOW CONGO FREE STATE CAME TO BE FOUNDED 5 sentiment that induced King Leopold II. to father this International Association. He is a dreamer, like his confreres in the work, because the…
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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Image 24 of The crime of the Congo, 6 THE CRIME OF THE CONGO and with a definite request that the State which he was forming should receive some recognized status among the nations. Was he at that time consciously…
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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Image 25 of The crime of the Congo, HOW CONGO FREE STATE CAME TO BE FOUNDED 7 as to the strict and literal meaning of the term in commercial mat- ters. It means. the unlimited right for every one to…
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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Image 26 of The crime of the Congo, 8 THE CRIME OF THE CONGO conscious that such a clause must disarm all opposition, went out of their way to accentuate it. No privileged situation can be created in this respect,…
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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Image 27 of The crime of the Congo, II THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONGO STATE HAVING received his mandate from the civilized world King Leopold proceeded to organize the Government of the new State, which was in theory to be…
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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Image 28 of The crime of the Congo, io THE CRIME OF THE CONGO civilized Lower Congo at the mouth of the river. There lay the white population. The upper reaches of the stream and of its great tributaries were…
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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Image 29 of The crime of the Congo, THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONGO STATE n State. In 1886, a long pronouncement upon native lands ended by the words: All acts or agreements are forbidden which tend to the expulsion of…
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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Image 30 of The crime of the Congo, 12 THE CRIME OF THE CONGO was described in the Bulletin Officiel as being for the Special pro- tection of the black. It is evident that the real protection of the black…
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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Image 31 of The crime of the Congo, THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONGO STATE 13 in view. The great impediment to the navigation of the Congo had lain in the continuous rapids which made the river impassable from Stanley Pool…
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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Image 32 of The crime of the Congo, i 4 THE CRIME OF THE CONGO more than sixty times their own size, will prove to have been a dark day in Belgian history. The Berlin Conference of 1885 marks the…
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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Image 33 of The crime of the Congo, THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONGO STATE 15 guarded by black soldiers, working at the railway. At Boma and at Leopoldsville, the two termini of the projected line, cities are rising, with stations,…
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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Image 34 of The crime of the Congo, 16 THE CRIME OF THE CONGO It has been notified to them that they can only receive permission to do so on condition that they gather the produce for the exclusive benefit…
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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Image 35 of The crime of the Congo, THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONGO STATE 17 treatment of natives from Sierra Leone, Lagos, and other British Settlements, who had been engaged by the Belgians to come to Congoland and help in…
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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Image 36 of The crime of the Congo, 18 THE CRIME OF THE CONGO compelled to admit the complete illegality of the whole incident, and could only fall back upon the excuse that Lothaire s action was bona-fide, and free…
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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Image 37 of The crime of the Congo, THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONGO STATE 19 that he would lodge an immediate appeal to the higher court at Boma. Rabinck, the Austrian, the victim of similar proceedings, did appeal to the…
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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Image 38 of The crime of the Congo, 20 THE CRIME OF THE CONGO the assertion that the crime punished was that of selling guns to the natives, but as a matter of fact there was at the time no…
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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Image 39 of The crime of the Congo, THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONGO STATE 21 chronicle there are a hundred which are known, but which cannot here be dealt with. For every one known, there are ten thousand, the story…
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909
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Image 40 of The crime of the Congo, Ill THE WORKING OF THE SYSTEM HAVING claimed, as I have shown, the whole of the land, and therefore the whole of its products, the State that is, the King proceeded to…
- Contributor: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Date: 1909