The subject of West African slavery, with which most. readers are acquainted in general details, is a most absorbing one. It will probably come as a surprise to the average British reader that Great Britain was. amongst the first nations to engage in the trade, and the obloquy This devotes a certain amount of attention to the last relics of slavery to found in the trade out of in which connection this remark may very well stand: that whatever may be thought of the Italian conquest and occupation of that country, if indeed it brings about the termination of that slavery which Haile Selassie pledged himself to terminate, that alone will have been ufficient justification in the eyes of history for that action by Itaty which has been so severely criticized, It seems very clear from all that has been written on the subject that when the principles of the League of Nations have to be held in the balance against those principles defending human rights, if there is to be any choice between them it must certainly be in favour of the latter.
On the whole a most interesting work and one well worth perusing.—
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