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Title: The Crime Against Europe
A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914

Author: Roger Casement

Release Date: January 18, 2005 [EBook #14728]

Language: English

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THE

Crime Against Europe

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_A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914_

BY

SIR ROGER CASEMENT

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COPYRIGHTED 1915

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INTRODUCTION.

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The reader must remember that these articles were written before
the war began. They are in a sense prophetic and show a remarkable
understanding of the conditions which brought about the present great
war in Europe.

The writer has made European history a life study and his training in
the English consular service placed him in a position to secure the
facts upon which he bases his arguments.

Sir Roger Casement was born in Ireland in September, 1864. He was made
consul to Lorenzo Marques in 1889, being transferred to a similar
post in the Portuguese Possessions in West Africa, which included the
consulate to the Gaboon and the Congo Free State. He held this post
from 1898 to 1905, when he was given the consulate of Santos. The
following year he was appointed consul to Hayti and San Domingo, but
did not proceed, going instead to Para, where he served until 1909,
when he became consul-general to Rio de Janeiro. He was created a
knight in 1911.

He was one of the organizers of the Irish Volunteers at Dublin in
November, 1913, being one of their provisional committee. At present
he is a member of the governing body of that organization. He spent
the summer of this year in the United States. Sir Roger is at present
in Berlin, where, after a visit paid to the foreign office by him,
the German Chancellor caused to be issued the statement that "should
the German forces reach the shores of Ireland they would come no