where I differentiate against your goods, and I claim the right to increase my possessions still further. Bat I deny you with your seventy millions of people and expanding birth rate and foreign trade, the right to hold a single inch of African soir? Or on what grounds of reason could ‘Britain’ be made to say to ‘Germany’: ‘My flag flies over one-fifth of the world’s surface, but although your population is greater than mine and increasing more rapidly, as is your trade, than mine, I deny to you, not only the right to possess an inch of African territory, but I also claim the right, whenever it may suit me, to encircle the whole of my enormous domain with a tariff wall against you?’ That way lies; not peace, but endless strife; not statesmanship, but madness; not relief for the peoples of France, Britain and Germany, but added burdens.”

“ Truth and the War ” London 1916.

These words express not only the deeply-stirred con­science of an eminent publicist, inspired by a glowing devotion to justice, and distressed at seeing his coun­try in the wrong, but also the vision of a prophet just as fervent in his devotion to peace among men.

The Breaking’ of the Congo Acts.

Who carried the war into Africa? Who unloosed the infernal passions of human slaughter in a continent already dark with human tragedy, misery and strife? Let it never be forgotten that war in Africa was be­gun in direct violation of the Congo Acts of 1885— treaties which had been signed by the leading nations in order to preserve the harmony and prestige of the white race among the black. At the outbreak of the war, Belgium, on August 7 th, 1914, proposed that the