The Days of a Man 1913 



cian brought up in New York but long resident in 

 Paris, E. D. Morel, expert in African affairs who 

 exposed the "red rubber atrocities" of the Congo, a 

 powerful opponent also of war diplomacy, Arnold 

 Rowntree, a well-known Friend, Miss M. Talmadge, 

 a business woman, Henry Bell, cashier of Lloyd's 

 Bank, Professor Charles Sarolea, a Belgian holding 

 the chair of French at the University of Edinburgh, 1 

 Joseph Fels, 2 and Valentine Williams, a war corre- 

 spondent lately returned from the Balkans. Guerard 

 (who was still visiting his mother in Paris) also ac- 

 cepted a special invitation to the conference. Only one 

 German had been asked to come, but he proved a 

 most interesting and valuable member. This was Dr. 

 Ernst Sieper of the chair of English Literature in the 

 University of Munich. A true internationalist, he 

 looked upon all political questions with a clear vision 

 devoid of prejudice and free from nativistic tradition. 



The group from England was chosen not with a 

 view to propaganda in pacifism, but rather to bring 

 out the various methods by which the movement for 

 world peace could be given popular support. Journal- 

 ists, bankers, publicity agents, and pacifists were 

 thus convened to secure suggestions drawn from 

 their experience. 



Morel gave a most interesting account of his 

 methods in the campaign against the Congo atroci- 

 ties, the bloody operations of those who held labor 

 under the lash in the rubber districts of Africa. Bell 

 discussed the situation from the standpoint of high 

 finance. 3 The bankers in England were not then 



1 See Chapter XLV, page 544. 



2 See Chapter XLII, page 468. 



It should go without saying that the statements which follow are greatly 

 condensed. 



