Word: consulation
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...Honorary Consul...
...young British consul in Africa, Casement doggedly uncovered and exposed the plight of Congolese natives whom King Leopold of the Belgians had promised to deliver from slavery but instead through torture, amputation and the lash, forced into the production of rubber. As a result of Casement's crusade-obstructed at every step by the "abject pifflers" of the Foreign Office -the Congo Free State, a private monopoly, was pried from ruthless Leopold's personal grasp and placed under the more or less civilized control of the Belgian government...
Posted as a consul in South America, in 1910 Casement again investigated the exploitation of rubber, and reported that Amazonian Indians were being as cruelly abused as if their masters had studied sadism in the Congo. This time, though, the villain was an English-owned company. Despite foot dragging back home and prevarication by the Peruvian government, it was forced to moderate its practices. In 1911 Casement was knighted for his effort, though he was now openly convinced that empire, left in the hands of commercial entrepreneurs, inevitably debased and destroyed the primitive communities whose land and labor they controlled...
...Honorary Consul, Greene...