Verbatim Report of the Five Days Congo Debate in the Belgian House of Representatives

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Excerpt from Verbatim Report of the Five Days Congo Debate in the Belgian House of Representatives: February 20, 27, 28, March 1, 2 It was necessary that the English-speaking world, from whose past and future actions-salvation for the Congo peoples will come, if it comes at all, should become acquainted with this historic debate in the Belgian Parliament. To this end the debate has been translated word for word, and is published, at considerable expense, by the Congo Reform Association, which, since its foundation in March, 1904, has placed before the world a mass of documentary evidence affecting the unparalleled tragedy of the Congo. Times have, indeed, changed since the Congo Reform Association, working in friendly co-operation with the Aborigines' Protection Society - between whose Secretary, Mr. H. R. Fox-Bourne, and the Hon. Secretary of the Association a cordial and unbroken community of thought had existed in connection with the Congo, long before the Association was formed - came into exigence. Abuses, which Sir Charles Dilke and Mr. Fox-Bourne had denounced for years, basing themselves upon unofficial testimony, were confirmed by the Report of H. M. Consul in the Congo, Mr. Roger Casement, and by Lord Cromer in the White Book issued in February, 1904. To Mr. Casement's services in the cause of humanity too high a tribute cannot be paid. His Report vindicated, in a manner as complete as it was striking, the grave step taken by H. M. Government before that Report was received, in approaching the signatory Powers of the Berlin and Brussels Acts, consequent upon the vote of the House of Commons in May, 1903. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.