"They discharge their mission under the most difficult conditions, and I Relieve that I may assert that, from the Governor-General down to the humblest official, there is not one guilty of cruelty."
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Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor to Leopold II.
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