Edmund D. Morel

…comes from Edmund D. Morell because he is the single biggest source. He's publishing books, he's publishing articles, editorials. When you look behind so many of the anecdotes and the quotations and indeed the statistics, they come from this one man. And he never goes to the Congo, that's the thing, rather like King Leopold.…

…This rival tycoon wants to bring down Elder Demester, or at least do them down a bit. So he gives Morel the money to do his campaign. And Morel starts to pour out not just, you know, dozens of articles, thousands of words, but millions of words. So an enormous quantity of what we have been saying in this podcast about the Congo is…

…And although it is true, as Hochschild says, that Morell is not conventionally religious, he doesn't attend Quaker meetings or Church of England services or anything like that. Nevertheless, it's clear that he has absorbed values, I would say, from his parents, probably particularly from his mother. And that this... is manifesting itself through his moral…