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French-born British journalist, author, pacifist and politician
- 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.
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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. [1] 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 manacles ...
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. Imprisoned during the war by the British government for his writings, he later became a foreign policy leader in the Labour Party and a critic of the Treaty of Versailles.
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'.
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Aug 21, 2014 · Donald Mitchell’s biography of E D Morel (1873-1924), The Politics of Dissent, comes at a time when Morel has been almost forgotten, his memory and message “extinguished by silence”. The Politics of Dissent attempts to redress this, presenting Morel as a “reformer; rebel; political activist”.
E. D. MOREL, 1919-24 Edmund Dene Morel was born in Paris in 1873, the son of a French civil servant father and an English mother. Modestly educated in England, he emerged at age thirty from the obscurity of a clerkship in a Liverpool commercial firm to launch a journalistic crusade against the murderous
Edmund Dene Morel, 1873-1924, was educated in Eastbourne but moved to Liverpool in 1891. Forced to leave school at the age of 15 due to his mother's financial difficulties, Morel worked as a clerk for the shipping firm Elder Dempster, and supplemented his income with part-time journalism.
British journalist Edward Morel drew attention to the abuses of imperialism, most notoriously in Congo Kinshasa, perhaps the most exploitative of the European colonies. Morel claimed it is the Africans who carry the “black man’s burden” (1920).
