Excerpt from The Crisis, Vol. 23: November, 1921 We had been invited by Paul Otlet and. Senator lafontaine and had been helped greatly by M'. Paul Panda, a native of the Belgian Congo who had been educated in Belgium. The Congress itself was held in the marvellous Palais Mondial, the World Palace situated in the Cinquantenaire' Park. We could not have asked for a better set ting. But there was a difference. In the first place, there were many more white than colored people - there are not many of us in Brussells - and it was not long be fore we realized that their interest was deeper, more immediately significant than that of the white people we had found else where. Many of Belgium's economic and material interests centre in Africa in the Belgian Congo. Any interference with the natives might result in an interference With the sources from which so many Belgian capitalists drew their prosperity. After all, who were these dark strangers speaking another tongue and introducing Heaven only knew what ideas to be car ried into the Congo? Once when speaking of the strides which colored America had made in education I suggested to M. Panda that perhaps some American colored teach ers might be induced to visit the Congo and help with the instruction of the na tives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.