ABSTRACT
Public feeling about the Congo had been growing in the United States since the turn of the century, when William Morrison returned there and began to engage in public criticism. The American missionary societies also started to exert pressure on the government, without, however, much result. In 1903, E. D. Morel started campaigning there by sending across copies of a small book with a preface especially addressed to the American public. To this, Leopold II responded by getting himself interviewed in Stanley's old paper, the New York Herald, but Morel persuaded the paper to carry a reply by him a few days later. The financial settlement that was accorded to Leopold was far from being the whole of the story. In his will, he insisted that he had received from his father a patrimony of Fr.15 million, that he had never made a penny from the Congo, and that he was bequeathing the same amount in his own will.
