The Days of a Man ^igij 



cian brought up in New York but long resident in 

 Morel 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,' 

 Joseph Fels,^ 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. 

 sie-per Emst Siepct of the chair of English Literature in the 

 University of Munich. A true internationalist, he 

 looked upon all pohtical 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.' 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. 



