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Labor in the Congo
Buell, Raymond Leslie | July 4, 1928 issue

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The article presents a historical background of the crises in Congo. Twenty years ago, the attention of the American people was officially called to conditions in the Congo Free State, then under the personal rule of king Leopold II of Belgium, by a resolution of the United States Senate asking the U.S. President to assist in bringing to an end alleged atrocities in that territory. Partly as a result of American and British opinion, the Belgian Parliament annexed the Free State in 1908 and terminated the regime under which natives had been obliged to gather rubber for the state and private concessionnaires. Following the adoption of these reforms, the interest of the outside world in Congo affairs began to wane.

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ANNEXATION (International law); ACQUISITION of territory; TERRITORY, National; LEOPOLD II, King of the Belgians; BELGIUM; CONGO (Democratic Republic)
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