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Edmund Dene Morel (born Georges Edmond Pierre Achille Morel Deville; 10 July 1873 – 12 November 1924) was a French-born British journalist, author, pacifist and politician. As a young official at the shipping company Elder Dempster, Morel observed a fortune being made in the export of Congo rubber and the shipping in of guns and ...
Edmund Dene Morel (Parigi, 10 luglio 1873 – Bovey Tracey, 12 novembre 1924) è stato un giornalista, scrittore e politico britannico. Morel lottò contro la schiavitù nello Stato Libero del Congo e nel 1904, in collaborazione con Roger Casement, fondò l'Associazione per la Riforma del Congo (CRA).
Morel, Edmund Dene. British journalist, activist, and politician. Born 10 July 1873 in Paris, France. Died 12 February 1924 in Bovey Tracey, Great Britain. E. D. Morel was one of the earliest critics of the secret diplomacy and alliance system that led to the start of the Great War.
E. D. Morel. Edmund Dene Morel, the son of Edmund Morel de Ville, was born in Paris on 15th July, 1873. Edmund's father, a minor official in the French Ministry of Finance, died in 1877. His mother, Emmeline de Ville, brought her four year old son back to England. Emmeline was a member of the Society of Friends and this had a major influence on ...
E. D. MOREL 127 entation of them,8 his leadership of the Congo Reform Association (C.R.A.), formed in 1904, proved his talents as an organizer as well. The observation of the foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey, that "no external question for at least thirty years has moved the country so strongly and so vehemently as this [the Congo]"9
Edward Morel, a British journalist in the Belgian Congo, drew attention to the abuses of imperialism in 1903. The Congo [for a period known in modern times as Zaïre] was perhaps the most famously exploitative of the European colonies. It is [the Africans] who carry the 'Black man's burden'.
9 gen 2013 · In February, 1919 Morel was named an advisor to the Labour Party's Advisory Committee on International Questions. Telegram Leonard Woolf to Morel, February 1, 1919, Newspaper Clippings, Miscellaneous 1919–1921, E. D. Morel Collection, Library, London School of Economics and Political Science.
