ABSTRACT
In August 1903, Casement was in the Congo interior, the British Government took the initiative demanded by the House of Commons, and addressed a Note to the Powers represented at the Berlin Conference. Following the publication of the Casement report, battle lines were drawn, both in Belgium and in England, with a degree of organisation not previously seen in the Congo controversy. On the British side, E. D. Morel and Roger Casement had been corresponding while the latter was still in the Congo, and the two met at the house of a mutual friend soon after Casement's return. Casement proposed to Morel that a new organisation, the Congo Reform Association, should be formed in order to develop the campaign. Gratton Guinness and the Congo Balolo Mission, who were already campaigning, joined in, but Fox Bourne was at first put out, feeling that the Congo Reform Association would be a divisive influence and steal the limelight from the Aborigines Protection Society.
